Al Gore

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

A zebra does not change its spots.

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

I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.