Al Franken Quotes

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Al Franken

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 21, 1951

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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Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

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

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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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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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If you want a free email service that doesn't use your words to target ads to you, you'll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

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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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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

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My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.

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