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 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 “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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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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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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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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