Al Franken Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Running Quotes

The 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.

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The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

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

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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.

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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about.

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

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If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

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I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

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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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There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

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Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine.

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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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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

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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 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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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.

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