Al Gore Quotes

Don't count on Congress. Laws come into being because people on the ground demand it.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

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.

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

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

Change the narrative, change the laws.

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

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.

My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

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.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

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.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

The steps which my predecessor took and the legislation passed on his recommendation have accomplished much, have caused a general halt in the vicious policies which created popular alarm, and have brought about in the business world a much higher regard for existing law.

You've got to have a theme if you're going to get Congress to do something difficult.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

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

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

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

Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.