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.
AL FRANKENI got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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