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.
AL FRANKENBut when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
More Al Franken Quotes
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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 been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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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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