I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
AL FRANKENWhy 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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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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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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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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