He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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