Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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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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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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