The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
AL FRANKENI wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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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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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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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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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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