01c. 1951 ADVeterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.Al Franken / quote ↗
02c. 1951 ADI'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.Al Franken / quote ↗
03c. 1951 ADWhen I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.Al Franken / quote ↗
04c. 1951 ADCall-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.Al Franken / quote ↗
05c. 1951 ADI've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.Al Franken / quote ↗
06c. 1951 ADNational security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.Al Franken / quote ↗
07c. 1951 ADApple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.Al Franken / quote ↗
08c. 1951 ADMy dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.Al Franken / quote ↗
09c. 1951 ADThe government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.Al Franken / quote ↗
10c. 1951 ADDuring Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.Al Franken / quote ↗
11c. 1951 ADWhen people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.Al Franken / quote ↗
12c. 1951 ADMistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: 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 ↗
13c. 1951 ADHaving an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.Al Franken / quote ↗
14c. 1951 ADArmed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.Al Franken / quote ↗
15c. 1951 ADIt's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.Al Franken / quote ↗
16c. 1951 ADMy dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.Al Franken / quote ↗
17c. 1951 ADMy views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.Al Franken / quote ↗
18c. 1951 ADMy parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.Al Franken / quote ↗
19c. 1951 ADMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.Al Franken / quote ↗
