I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

— Al Gore

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

— Al Gore

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. Furthermore, I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

— Al Gore

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

— Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

— Al Gore

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

— Al Gore

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

— 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.

— Al Gore

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

— Al Gore

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

— Al Gore