The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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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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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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 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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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