The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
AL FRANKENMy views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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 reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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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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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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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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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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