I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America. — Al Gore

Climate crisis is a top priority, and we must have a president who is passionate about [it]. — Al Gore

I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it. — Charlton Heston

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever. — 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. — Al Gore

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government. — Al Gore

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. — Al Gore

The presidency is more than a popularity contest. — Al Gore

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity. — Al Gore

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution… Here it is: Put a price on carbon. — Al Gore

If the only tool we use to analyse what’s valuable is a price tag, then those things that don’t have price tags begin to look like they have no value. — Al Gore

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

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. — Al Gore

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real. — 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 have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore

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. — Al Gore

If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it’s deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it. — Al Gore

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. — Al Gore

This is not normal. This has become the new normal. — Al Gore

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. — 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

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future. — Al Gore

We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home–Earth–is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings. — Al Gore

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself. — Charlton Heston

Mother Nature does not do bailouts. — Al Gore

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore

This better be good. — Al Gore

The task of saving the earth’s environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post–Cold War world. — Al Gore

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true. — Al Gore

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world. — Al Gore

Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes. — Al Gore

America’s political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies. — Al Gore

Oftentimes the child is the father of the man. — David Maraniss

As an actor, I’m thankful I have lived not one life, but many. — Charlton Heston

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. — Charlton Heston

I’m naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. — Al Gore