Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
AL FRANKENSome of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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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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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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