Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
AL FRANKENI 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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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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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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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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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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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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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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Some 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.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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