Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
AL FRANKENMistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
AL FRANKENI’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
AL FRANKENProgressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
AL FRANKENLooking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
AL FRANKENFor 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
AL FRANKENI didn’t realize he meant our nation.
AL FRANKENAt ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
AL FRANKENI want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
AL FRANKENIf you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
AL FRANKENYou can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
AL FRANKENI grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
AL FRANKENI know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
AL FRANKENArmed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
AL FRANKENNational 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 FRANKENI mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
AL FRANKENI 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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