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Al Franken

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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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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.
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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 want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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