Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
AL FRANKENOne thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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National 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.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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