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Al Gore

(1948) Climate Activist United States

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Al Gore is a climate activist from the United States, best known for Federal welfare-to-work commitments.

Quick Facts About Al Gore

Born: March 31, 1948
Nationality: United States
Profession: Climate Activist
Notable works: Federal welfare-to-work commitments
Spouse: Tipper Gore

About Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Tennessee in both houses of the U.S. Congress, first as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985, and then as a U.S. senator from 1985 to 1993. Gore was the Democratic nominee in the 2000 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee George W. Bush.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Umweltmedienpreis Presidential Medal of Freedom Nobel Peace Prize Champions of the Earth Dan David Prize National Defense Service Medal Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation Internet Hall of Fame

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Roger Revelle Prize Sierra Club John Muir Award Giuseppe Motta Medal James Madison Award NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award International Emmy Founders Award Webby Lifetime Achievement Award James Parks Morton Interfaith Award honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University honorary doctor of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań honorary doctor of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Quotes by Al Gore · Page 18

If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he…

Biological weapons

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The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution…

Digital revolution

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As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased…

Climate change

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The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner…

Available

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Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet…

Berlin

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

Als

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

Credit

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The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this…

Allies

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Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of…

Clock

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When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what…

Correspondence

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When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the…

Action

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I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

Interest

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...the debate among the scientists if over. There is no more debate. We face a planetary emergency. There is no more scientific…

Arizona

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We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

Can't change

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We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum -…

Civics

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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Division

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I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in…

Assault

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It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

Issues

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Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child…

Birth

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Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

Climate change

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Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious…

Battle

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You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.

Lungs

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Al Gore by topic

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