As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
AL FRANKENWe basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
More Al Franken Quotes
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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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