I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKENThey had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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