My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
AL FRANKENWe owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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