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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.
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I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.
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The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve.
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We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours the earth is in balance.
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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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What we've often seen is that when we Americans say, look, we've got to reduce pollution, business - some businesses complain about it, but almost every time, it's turned out to be easier and cheaper and accomplished faster, and they've gained confidence, and then we go farther.
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The center of the earth is about a million degrees.
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I smoked pot in college and in the Army.
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Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.
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You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.
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Israel has its own right as a nation to defend its national security.
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I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.
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We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
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Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.
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I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.
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Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.
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I think that asserting that former President Obama wasn't born in the United States was just the height of irresponsibility, of course. And Donald Trump corrected that one. There are others that have yet to be corrected.
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