Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
AL FRANKENI do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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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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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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