Memorable quotes for
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

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Al Gore: I'm Al Gore, I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
[laughter and applause from audience]
Al Gore: I don't find that particularly funny.

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Al Gore: It's important to rescue the frog.

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Al Gore: [quoting Mark Twain] "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."

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Al Gore: [quoting Upton Sinclair] "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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George H.W. Bush: This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme, we'll be up to our neck in owls and outta work for every American. He is way out, far out, man.

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Al Gore: Should we prepare for other threats besides terrorists?

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Al Gore: We have everything, save perhaps political will. But in America, I believe political will is a renewable resource.

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Al Gore: I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

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Al Gore: You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

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[first lines]
Al Gore: You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It's quiet; it's peaceful. And all of a sudden, it's a gear shift inside you. And it's like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh yeah, I forgot about this."

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[last lines]
Al Gore: Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

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[Looking at a picture of a scientist observing a set of scales that hold the globe on one side and a stack of gold bars on the other]
Al Gore: We have here a scales that balances two different things. On one side, we have *gold* bars! Mmmmmm, don't they look good? I'd just like to have some of those gold bars. Mmmmm. On the other side of the scales... um... THE ENTIRE PLANET! Hmmmm...
[the audience laughs]
Al Gore: I think this is a false choice for two reasons: number one, if we don't *have* a planet...
[laughter]
Al Gore: The other reason is that, if we do the *right* thing, then we're gonna create a lot of wealth, and we're gonna create a lot of jobs, because doing the right thing moves us forward."

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Al Gore: What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

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Al Gore: It takes time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

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