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, 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.
Al FrankenI donโt know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you canโt see it.
Al FrankenCall-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my โcall-time manager,โ and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, Iโm really good at it.
Al FrankenYou have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means youโre not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
Al Franken