May 30, 2006 2:17PM 

# Al Gore — Master of Understatement 

By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) 

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My nomination for [quote of the day](http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2006/story/0,,1785770,00.html) comes from former Vice President and current lecturer-in-chief Al Gore: “We now have the capacity to literally change the relationship between the Earth and the sun.”

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