My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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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.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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