They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
AL FRANKENBob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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 think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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