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 FRANKENToday I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
More Al Franken Quotes
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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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I 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.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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.
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