I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
AL FRANKENThe only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
More Al Franken Quotes
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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 think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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