I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
AL FRANKENCall-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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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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 dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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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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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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