Quote

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

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
Light
Window
Phases
Make
Laws
Windows
Policy
Policies
Needed
List
Bulbs
Struggle
Lists
Civic
Law
Protection
Civics
Action
Climate
Treaties
Political
Changes
Phase

More quotes by Al Gore

Image
I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
Al Gore
Image
I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.
Al Gore
Image
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
Image
American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.
Al Gore
Image
...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.
Al Gore
Image
You know, in physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, Well, I need to react to that. I think that's happening.
Al Gore
Image
Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.
Al Gore
Image
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Al Gore
Image
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Al Gore
Image
The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.
Al Gore
Image
The presidency is more than a popularity contest.
Al Gore
Image
You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.
Al Gore
Image
I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.
Al Gore
Image
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
Al Gore
Image
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.
Al Gore
Image
I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.
Al Gore
Image
Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.
Al Gore
Image
Take it from me, every vote counts.
Al Gore
Image
The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
Al Gore
Image
The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.
Al Gore