Al Gore

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for ‘undermining support for our troops.’

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. … Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

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.

…the Pentagon has been the primary Keynesian mechanism whereby the government intervenes to maintain what is ludicrously called the health of the economy by inducing production, that means production of waste and destruction

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

I’m not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.

Half of Republicans deny that global warming is taking place, while 70% say that whether it is or not, humans are not responsible. Such figures would be shocking anywhere, but are remarkably so in a developed country with unparalleled resources and easy access to information.

Pick the topic you like: the Middle East, international terrorism, Central America, whatever it is, the picture of the world that’s presented to the public has only the remotest relation to reality. The truth of the matter is buried under edifice after edifice of lies upon lies. It’s all been a marvelous success from the point of view in deterring the threat of democracy, achieved under conditions of freedom, which is extremely interesting. It’s not like a totalitarian state, where it’s done by force. These achievements are under conditions of freedom.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

[Mexico] ripping off the US more than almost any other nation

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

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.

If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.