Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice-President Al Gore touched on environmental issues during their speeches to the Convention delegates. Read the excerpts below.

Vice-President Al Gore

"Are you worried that our environmental laws are being weakened and dismantled to allow vast increases in pollution that are contributing to a global climate crisis?"

"He [John Kerry] had the best record of protecting the environment against polluters of any of my colleagues-bar none."

President Bill Clinton

"They protected my tax cuts while:...weakening or reversing important environmental advances for clean air and the preservation of our forests."

"When we needed someone to...clean the environment in a way that creates jobs, or to give small businesses a better chance to make it, John Kerry said send me."

• John Kerry and John Edwards, have good ideas:...to free us from dependence on foreign oil and create new jobs in clean energy;