Al Gore
Vice President
1948-03-31
Al Gore is an American politician and environmental advocate who served as the 45th vice president of the United States.
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you can't be value free when it comes to marriage
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We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
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China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.
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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.
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We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
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China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.
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you can't be value free when it comes to marriage
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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.
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I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.
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I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
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I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
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A zebra does not change its spots.
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The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
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In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.
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I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.
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I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
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Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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