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 FRANKENI’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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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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