Al Gore

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

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.’

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

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.

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

Read, say, George Washington, a leading figure in the settler-colonial society we live in. His view was – his words – was that we have to ‘extirpate’ the Iroquois; they’re in our way. They were an advanced civilization.

[on the 2016 election] When the most qualified person running was a woman, and look what we did instead, I mean that says something about where we are. That’s what we have to explore, because if we as women are still suspicious of one another, if we still have this crazy, crazy bar for each other that we don’t have for men… if we’re not comfortable with the notion that a woman could be our president compared to… what, then we have to have those conversations with ourselves as women.

Politics is like boxing – you try to knock out your opponents.

Trump himself seems to be having the time of his life. He’s constantly in the limelight, his loyal base worships his every move, he’s free to defy convention, to insult anyone he chooses, to disrupt the international economic and political order at will…

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun

Many people would like to see Nigel Farage represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States. He would do a great job!

We’re going to be campaigning on issues of social justice and poverty, you will be seeing a lot of me.

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called ‘moderate Republicans’. The ‘political revolution’ that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

You’re thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don’t. I think that’s old Europe.