My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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