Al Franken Quotes

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• It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

  Al Franken

  Inspirational, World, Slippers

  "Stuart Saves His Family". www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• 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. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  Al Franken

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.14, Penguin

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• I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Smart, People

  "ABC's This Week Promotes Dem. Al Franken: 'Traded in Comedy for Politics'". Interview with Jeff Zeleny, www.newsbusters.org. May 4, 2014.

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• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Money, Media, America

  "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.

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• Whining is anger through a small opening.

  Al Franken

  Inspirational, Whining, Opening

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• Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

  Al Franken

  Seriousness, Opposition

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• Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

  Al Franken

  Lying, Should, Ridicule

  Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996.

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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.

  Al Franken

  America, Four, Politician

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• There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

  Al Franken

  Color, People, Rainbow

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.16, Penguin

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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.

  Al Franken

  Winning, Voice, Needs

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• We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.

  Al Franken

  President, Election

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

  Al Franken

  Mean, Political, Democracy

  "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Veterans 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

  Dog, Eye, People

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• When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

  Al Franken

  President, Campaigns, Comedy

  "If Clark is Schwarzenegger, who is Huffington?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2003.

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• We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

  Al Franken

  Issues, Climate, Would Be

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• We need an investigation, because we don't know what Donald Trump owes Russia. We don't know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.

  Al Franken

  Russia, Needs, Trump

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Masters, Well Being

  "Franken, unleashes first bill" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 20, 2009.

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• I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

  Al Franken

  Laughter, Democracy, Realizing

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• During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

  Al Franken

  Evil, President, Bob

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• If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

  Al Franken

  Country, Issues, Important

  Al Franken's Speech to the Eighth Annual American Constitution Society National Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Oil, Might Use

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• It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.

  Al Franken

  Philadelphia, Pudding, Hey

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• And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

  Al Franken

  Fun, Book, Writing

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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. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

  Al Franken

  Running, Teacher, Dad

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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.

  Al Franken

  Country, America, Republican

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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