Al Gore

More from Al Gore

• When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

  • Debate

• No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Concession speech (2000)

  • Failure

• During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

  Response when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer CNN (9 March 1999)

  • Internet

All 6 quotes from Al Gore

Popular quotes

• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy