Al Gore

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

Iraq’s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

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.

The presidency is more than a popularity contest.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

So, essentially, what President Trump is saying is, we’ll destroy your countries, slaughter you, impose brutal regimes, but if you try to get out, you’re not going to come here, because America is full.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

While Trump’s antics occupy the attention of the media, his associates in Congress have been working intensively to advance the interests of their actual constituency-extreme wealth and corporate power-while dismantling what is of value to the general population andfuture generations.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Would I do business with Putin? Sure. And I’d challenge him on human rights in Russia, challenge him on these issues and challenge him on that whole basis of that relationship.

We get the leaders we vote for. We get the policies we vote for. And when we don’t vote, that’s when we wind up with government of, by and for other people.

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

The fightback now of our party gathers speed and gathers pace.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, ‘What kind of peace?’

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

[on Donald Trump] seems determined to add to the dangers [in the global situation] by recklessly escalating the confrontation with North Korea, unilaterally launching missile strikes on Syria, opposing President Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran and backing a new nuclear arms race.