I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
AL FRANKENWe lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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My 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.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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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 know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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