Call-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.
AL FRANKENMy mom sold real estate and did it part time.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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