“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.” WayInspirationalHumansHardMotivationalSuccessMotivationMistakeInspireFailureLessonsAppreciateLife LessonBeing HumanLearning From MistakesMy MistakesHard WayGreat MistakesLearn From Your MistakesLearning LessonsPast MistakesLife MistakesOne MistakeLearn From My MistakesLife Is PreciousMistakes And LearningPrecious LifeLearned From MistakesHard LessonsLearning The Hard WayHow Precious Life IsFatal Mistakes Book:Oh, the Things I Know! Source: Oh, the Things I Know!
“Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.” WayDifferentAmericaLike MeDifferent Ways Author:Al Franken
“Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.” WayWant Author:Al Franken
“Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.” WayUsePercentPregnancyContraceptionTeen Pregnancy Author:Al Franken
“When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.” WayTechnologyWrittenCenturyConstitutionEvolveFoundersNew Technology Author:Al Franken
“I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.” ThinkingWayInternetPaceRapidsYoutubeNeutralityNet Neutrality Author:Al Franken
“The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.” WayGivingProblemBigsGovernmentAmericaKnowingInformationBalanceSafeProgramWeightTerroristPrivacyTransparencySurveillanceBig Problems Author:Al Franken
“The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.” WayStatesDemocraticSenatorsMinnesota Author:Al Franken
“There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.” PeopleWayFirstsLanguageFirst TimeMarkDemocratCirclesChecksVotersBallots Author:Al Franken
“There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.” ThinkingWaySelfBitsDangerousCriticalSuperiorsAppealsExceptionalism Author:Al Franken
“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.” WayLoveYearsMeanDoeDifferentHelpingAmericaPoliticsGrowsUnderstandingWonderfulDifferent WaysCriticizeLoved OnesWhat You LoveLove MeansOld Love Author:Al Franken
