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Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (born 31 March 1948) is an American politician and social activist. The son of Albert Gore and the husband of Tipper Gore, he was the 45th vice president of the United States of America and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism.
America cannot be the world's policeman. But we must reject the new isolationism that says: don't help anywhere, because we can not help everywhere.
Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to "bring it on."
We need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking.
We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change.
A responsible foreign policy must harness all our economic and military might — but it must also make use of our values and principles.
An American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people.
I think Arctic drilling is insane. I think that countries around the world would be very well advised to put restrictions on drilling for oil in the Arctic ocean.
The day I made that statement, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
Make no mistake, it is precisely our moral authority that is our greatest source of strength...
We are now in a new era. To label this time "the post-Cold War era" belies its uniqueness and its significance. We are now in a Global Age.
While there will be time enough to debate our continuing differences, now is the time to recognize that that which unites us is greater than that which divides us.
I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself — to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties.
It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people."
Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power and influence are distributed and the way collective decisions are made.
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.
Our founders were insightful students of human nature... they understood that every human being has not only "better angels" in his nature, but also an innate vulnerability to temptation — especially the temptation to abuse power over others.
We have to go far — quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.
The interior of the earth is extremely hot - several million degrees.
We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.
IPI speech (2000)
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