{"author":"Al Gore","author_id":"Al+Gore","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["climate","economics","socialism"],"id":12551,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["president","years","serve "],"id":13415,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"A zebra does not change its spots.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["spots","does "],"id":48475,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["change","future","oil "],"id":51322,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"You can't be value free when it comes to marriage.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["bull-hit","marriage","values"],"id":77827,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["travel","airplane","you "],"id":103441,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["future","ideas","impossible "],"id":143019,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["policy","science"],"id":151693,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["growth","moving forward "],"id":197280,"author_id":"Al+Gore"},{"text":"While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.","author":"Al Gore","tags":["courage","truth","financial "],"id":198966,"author_id":"Al+Gore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}