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I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.
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Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.
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As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
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Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
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I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.
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Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.
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If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
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And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.
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I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.
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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.
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As many know, the Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for danger, the second the symbol for opportunity.
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Eventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.
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The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
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While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
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In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.
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