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 FRANKENCompared 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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My 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.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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