Al Franken actually said...

"This is a pretty large increase. That is more than three times the rate of inflation."

"Well, let us ask Professor Wu. Have you thought about it?"

"I guess one of the reasons--the answer to your question is that we worry about this agreement, this joint venture agreement."

"When we are done, America will be the first nation on earth to have full-fledged facilities-based telephone competition everywhere. We will achieve the vision of the two-wired world."