Quotes from Al Gore

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

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.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

The Politics of Fear Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dissipate fear, but fear frequently shuts down reason. As Edmund Burke wrote in England twenty years before the American Revolution, "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.