[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there.

Don’t conclude so fast, you may never know what is behind the fact you know!

I want to be optimistic because I don't think man is intrinsically violent.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

Fools are wise until they speak.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.