My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
AL FRANKENNo one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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Good 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.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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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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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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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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