652 Quotes by Al Gore

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    Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

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    Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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    I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

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    In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?

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    Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

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    CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

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    When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

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    A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

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    I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

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