Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
AL FRANKENI believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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 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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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 felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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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.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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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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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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