Al Gore, właśc. Albert Arnold Gore junior – amerykański polityk, działacz Partii Demokratycznej, wieloletni członek Kongresu, w latach 1993–2001 45. wiceprezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych za kadencji prezydenta Billa Clintona. Kandydat swojej partii w wyborach prezydenckich w 2000, kiedy to uzyskał większość w głosowaniu powszechnym, ale przegrał w Kolegium Elektorskim. Z zawodu dziennikarz i autor kilku książek. Laureat Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla w 2007 za działalność na rzecz przeciwdziałania globalnemu ociepleniu. Gore wystąpił w uhonorowanym Oscarem filmie Niewygodna prawda, przedstawiającym problem globalnego ocieplenia. Wikipedia
„We wnętrzu ziemi panuje ekstremalne gorąco – wiele milionów stopni.”
The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees. (ang.)
12 listopada 2009; w rzeczywistości w samym jądrze ziemi panuje temperatura 5000–6000 stopni Celsjusza (9032–10832 stopni Fahrenheita).
Źródło: The Tonight Show
In some areas of Poland, children are regularly taken underground into deep mines to gain some respite from the buildup of gases and pollution of all sorts in the air. One can almost imagine their teachers emerging tentatively from the mine, carrying canaries to warn the children when it’s no longer safe for them to stay above the ground. (ang.)
Źródło: Earth in Balance, 2000, s. 81
o sukcesie swojego filmu Niewygodna prawda.
Źródło: „Forum”, 23 lipca 2007
„By powstrzymać ocieplenie klimatu, musimy natychmiast ograniczyć emisję dwutlenku węgla.”
Źródło: „Polityka”, 10 marca 2007
Gore w głosowaniu powszechnym w 2000 uzyskał większość ponad pół miliona głosów, ale przegrał z George’em W. Bushem w kolegium elektorów za sprawą nie do końca uznawanych przez wielu za rzetelne oficjalnych wyników na Florydzie.
“The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome.”
Quotes, Concession speech (2000)
Kontekst: I know that many of my supporters are disappointed. I am too. But our disappointment must be overcome by our love of country.
And I say to our fellow members of the world community, let no one see this contest as a sign of American weakness. The strength of American democracy is shown most clearly through the difficulties it can overcome.
Quotes, The Assault on Reason (2007)
Kontekst: For the first time in American history, the Executive Branch of our government has not only condoned but actively promoted the treatment of captives in wartime that clearly involves torture, thus overturning a prohibition established by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
It is too easy — and too partisan — to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us? Why has America's public discourse become less focused and clear, less reasoned? Faith in the power of reason — the belief that free citizens can govern themselves wisely and fairly by resorting to logical debate on the basis of the best evidence available, instead of raw power — remains the central premise of American democracy. This premise is now under assault.
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
"So, Al Gore, what's the one thing we can all do to tackle climate change?" in The Independent (7 July 2007) http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2742779.ece.
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
Nobel Prize lecture http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/laureates/laureates-2007/gore-lecture/, 10 December 2007.
Quotes, NYU Law School speech (2006)
Quotes, Our Larger Tasks (2002)
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
" Al Gore on Medicine's Inconvenient Truths http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/820985#vp_7", interview with Eric Topol, page 7 of 8, in Medscape (7 March 2014)
“It was clear to me that men and women were equal — if not more so.”
A joke used during his campaign speeches, about childhood impressions of hearing his parents arguing; as quoted in "Gore Campaign, Trailing Among Women, Sharpens Its Pitch to Them" by Melinda Henneberger in The New York Times (6 July 1999) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E2DE1E3DF935A35754C0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
As quoted in "The 2000 Campaign : The Vice President" by David Barstow in The New York Times (12 August 2000) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404EFD6153FF931A2575BC0A9669C8B63.
Wariant: When my sister and I were growing up, there was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
Quotes, The Assault on Reason (2007)
Quotes, Concession speech (2000)
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Quotes, Our Larger Tasks (2002)
Joking about reports that he had claimed to have invented the internet, as quoted in The Boston Globe (9 April 1999).
As quoted in "Gore: I've 'fallen out of love with politics'" at CNN (6 July 2007) http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/05/gore.office/index.html.
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
“Please don't recount this vote.”
Webby Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech http://www.webbyawards.com/press/speeches.php (limited to 5 words) (6 June 2005).
It was, "We the people."
As quoted by the Philadelphia Daily News (21 October 2005).
Quotes, NYU Speech (2004)
“I have ridden the mighty moon-worm!”
Guest appearance on Futurama episode "Crimes of the Hot" (10 November 2002).
