Al Gore

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.

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.

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

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

Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.

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

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…

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

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Europe has not been a heterogenous society to anything like the extent that the United States has. Nor has it been as mobile a society as the United States. These matters have been a bit under the cover, but they’re harder to keep under the cover.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.

Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn on their own because that is what you’re going to do during your life, not just absorb materials given to you by the outside, and repeat it.

When people grow more alienated and isolated, they begin to develop highly irrational and very self-destructive attitudes. They want something in their lives…[t]hey don’t want to be just glued to the TV set. If most of the constructive ways are cut off, they turn to other ways.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats.