August 29, 2008 1:10 PM

More on Gore

Gore at a glance

Born: March 31, 1948,
Parents: Former U.S. Sen. Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore.
Hometown: Carthage, Tenn.
Education: Graduated form Harvard University.
Military Service: Enlited in the U.S. Army after Harvard and served in Vietnan.
Family: Gore and his wife, Tipper, have four children.
Political history: First elected to U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and elected to the Senate in 1986. He was vice president under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. He lost to George W. Bush in 2000, in the closest presidential election in U.S. history.
Post-politics: Gore is co-founder and chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite TV network.
He also is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on sustainable investing. He is a partner in California-based Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, where he heads the investment firm's climate change solutions group.
Gore is a member of board of Apple and is a senior advisor to Google.
Gore is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, which became one of the most popular documentary films in history. The film received Academy awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song in 2007.
Quotes:
From An Inconvenient Truth.
"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."

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

"It's important to rescue the frog."

Quotes from national address as president in an alternate universe, as seen on Saturday Night Live.
"On a positive note, we worked hard to save welfare, fix Social Security, and of course, provide the universal health care we all enjoy today. But all this came at a high cost. As I speak, the gigantic national budget surplus is down to a perilously low 11 trillion dollars."
"Baseball, our national pastime, still lies under the shadow of steroid accusations. But I have faith in Baseball Commissioner George W. Bush when he says, "We will find the steroid users if we have to tap every phone in America."
"In 2001, when I came into office, our national security was the most important issue. The threat of terrorism was real. Who knew that six years later, Afghanistan would be the most popular spring break destination, or that Six Flags Tehran is the fastest growing amusement park in the Mideast, and the scariest thing we Americas have to fear is ....Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!"

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