The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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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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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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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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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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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