I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
AL FRANKENI’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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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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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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Why 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.
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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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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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