Al Franken Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Men Quotes

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

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

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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

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There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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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 got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus. I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it's a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us. And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.

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Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

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

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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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I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

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