Make sure your voice is heard. Win the conversation. Speak at a Town Hall Meeting or Forum. - Al Gore

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

History will surely judge America's decision to invade and occupy a fragile and unstable nation that did not attack us and posed no threat to us as a decision that was not only tragic but absurd. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, to be sure, but not one who posed an imminent danger to us. It is a decision that could have been made only at a moment in time when reason was playing a sharply diminished role in our national deliberations.

Leadership means inspiring us to manage through our fears. Demagoguery means exploiting our fears for political gain.