He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
AL FRANKENGood 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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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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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.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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