Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
AL FRANKENI do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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 felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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