Matt Lauer: “From your point of view, if you were to run for
President you could take this issue [global warming] to the next level,
even during just a campaign. And if you were fortunate enough to win the
presidency, you’d sit in the most powerful office in the free world with
a real chance to make — you could be in a position to save the planet,
without putting too much emphasis on it. Wouldn’t that be enough of a
reason to run for President for you?”
Former Vice President Al Gore: “Well, I appreciate the impulse
behind the question. I am not planning to run....”
Lauer: “But as someone who feels as passionately about the
subject as you do, and your documentary is evidence of that, why pass up
the opportunity to have that world stage again?”
— Exchange on NBC’s Today, December 6, 2006.
