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 FRANKENAnd the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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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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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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