I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
AL FRANKENI like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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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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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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