QUOTES by Al Franken
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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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"Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'"
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"I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders."
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"I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam."
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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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"Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy."
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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 ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit."
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"My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all."
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"Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point."
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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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"Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build."
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"The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens."
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"Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate."
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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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"Most Americans don't think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should."
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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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"Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement."
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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. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself."
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"Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I."
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"Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him."
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"The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio."
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"Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell."
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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. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world."
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"When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation."
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"Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule."
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"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from"
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"I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens."
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"I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent."
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"Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!"
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"Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans."
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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. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms."
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"Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party."
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"I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it."
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"At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out."
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"I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies."
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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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"The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq."
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