America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.
Al GoreAll I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.
Al GoreAmerican democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.
Al GoreScientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.
Al GoreI'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.
Al GoreYou see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.
Al Gore