I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENThe way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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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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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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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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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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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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 a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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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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