Quote

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.

Al Gore

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
Businessperson
Climate Activist
Environmentalist
Financier
Former Vice President Of The United States
Journalist
Politician
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Albert Arnold Gore
Albert Gore
Al Gore Jr.
Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
Albert Arnold Al Gore Jr.
Albert Gore Jr.
Gore
Things
Valuable
Like
Tools
Begin
Value
Tags
Values
Analyse
Use
Tag
Look
Tool
Looks
Price

More quotes by Al Gore

Image
Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by major emitters in the absence of major legislation. But it's a blunt instrument that is a little more difficult to use than a legislative remedy.
Al Gore
Image
Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.
Al Gore
Image
The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.
Al Gore
Image
I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
Al Gore
Image
America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
Al Gore
Image
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Al Gore
Image
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
Al Gore
Image
I would kiss Tipper much longer.
Al Gore
Image
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.
Al Gore
Image
The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.
Al Gore
Image
There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.
Al Gore
Image
George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.
Al Gore
Image
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
Al Gore
Image
It's not at all new for wealthy and powerful interests to try to hide the ball and ignore independent analyses of relevant facts.
Al Gore
Image
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
Al Gore
Image
You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.
Al Gore
Image
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
Al Gore
Image
Well, the title An Inconvenient Truth is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.
Al Gore
Image
There's no such thing as clean coal. It's non-existent. Theoretically, it might be possible, many years from now, to come up with a way to clean it as it's burnt. But there's not a single demonstration project in the United States. [...] Clean coal doesn't exist.
Al Gore
Image
The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.
Al Gore