I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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 mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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