I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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My 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.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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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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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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My 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.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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