Al Gore Quotes

As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

Even though it's important for all of us to change our light bulbs and the vehicles we drive, it's much more important to change our laws and policies. 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. But putting the burden on individuals to solve this global crisis is ultimately not going to be the most effective way to solve it.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

If I could solve these problems with passing laws in the Congress, I would do so.

Part of the reason why I wanted to be involved in politics was to create and be a part of policy changes.

We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.

I don't have to be president to do great things for my country, but at the same time, to get legislation and policy passed, you have to be in some kind of office. So I don't know what the future will lead to.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

I have always been saying that while - the legislative reforms are good, but there are so many low-hanging fruits that we have look for by taking executive decisions. I think the government is actually moving in the right direction.

I think that policy matters. I'm a policy guy.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

I want to be at least part of the change in Congress.

I'm tired of just introducing legislation that's just not going to change our lives. It's going beyond that.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.

It's hard for me to believe that just my words on the page are enough. I ought to be out physically keeping abortion safe and legal, restoring the Fourth Amendment, getting clean water back into Kentucky since the Bush Administration has allowed strip miners to fill it all up with slag. The list is endless. Bring it down. Make it small. Make it one thing that you can do. It's very hard for me to remember that.