“Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.”

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.

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

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.

The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

It is just human nature to take 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.

As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.