Al Gore Quotes

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Conservation is not without a cost.

I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn’t have to come at the expense of our economy’s bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn’t have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Ecological policy rejects exploitative forms of economy and the unscrupulous plundering of natural resources and raw materials, as well as the destructive interventions into nature's ability to renew itself. We believe that the exploitation of nature as well as human beings must be stopped if we are to master this acute threat to life on earth.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

We will invest heavily in safety and security... preserve the environment... make progress on biodiversity and economic progress.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

Our district is home to the Adirondacks, and we know firsthand that clean energy development and environmental protection are critical to our economy.

It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.

We do not have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.