01c. 1951 ADMistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.Al Franken / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADToday I will masterbate!Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!Al Franken / quote ↗
04c. 1951 ADWhen the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.Al Franken / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADYou're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.Al Franken / quote ↗
06c. 1951 ADIf we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching reasonable political discourse.Al Franken / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADPolitics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)Al Franken / quote ↗
08c. 1951 ADPaul's greatest contribution to the progressive cause wasn't what he accomplished in the senate, although he accomplished a lot. It's the way he inspired others to take action, and taught them to be effective, and gave them the confidence to stand up and shout about what they believed it.Al Franken / quote ↗
09c. 1951 ADWhen you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.Al Franken / quote ↗
10c. 1951 ADDoes the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.Al Franken / quote ↗
11c. 1951 ADThe biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.Al Franken / quote ↗
12c. 1951 ADWe love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.Al Franken / quote ↗
15c. 1951 ADBob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.Al Franken / quote ↗
16c. 1951 ADThere is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.Al Franken / quote ↗
17c. 1951 ADThere's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.Al Franken / quote ↗
18c. 1951 ADThe Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.Al Franken / quote ↗
19c. 1951 ADMy dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'Al Franken / quote ↗
21c. 1951 ADTeen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.Al Franken / quote ↗
22c. 1951 ADMy spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.Al Franken / quote ↗
23c. 1951 ADI felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.Al Franken / quote ↗
24c. 1951 ADWhen you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.Al Franken / quote ↗
