We 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.
AL FRANKENLooking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
More Al Franken Quotes
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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