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.
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.
A zebra does not change its spots.
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
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.
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
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.
I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
