Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
AL FRANKENGood 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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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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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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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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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 believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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