"I promise you a day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and ask one of two questions: Either, what in God's name were they doing? What was wrong with them?...What were they thinking? Or How did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy, and do what some said was impossible, and shake things up, and tell the special interests, 'okay, we heard you, we'll take your considerations into account, but we're going to do what's right...We do not have time to play around with this."

Al Gore
March 21, 2007