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Former vice-president of the United States and author of the worldwide bestseller 'An Inconvenient Truth', Al Gore
Monday, Oct. 15, 2007

Open quoteAwarding a peace prize is, to put it bluntly, a political act. Close quote

  • FRANCIS SEJERSTED
  • chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee throughout the 1990s, in a general response to Vice President Al Gore's winning of the Noble Peace Prize
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