Al Franken Quotes, Confused Quotes, People Quotes

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, 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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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.

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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, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

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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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Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

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I'm for Israel's right to exist.

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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. 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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

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There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'

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