There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
AL FRANKENI feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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