Al Franken actually said...

"I certainly do think it's unfair that private student loans are treated like unpaid criminal fines rather than like very similar forms of consumer debt like credit cards."

"I don't want Pell grants being used in a way that is just going to waste."

"When the invisible hand is operating it isn't an invisible hand with a card up its sleeve?"

"the big policy was why should a bank robber in Texas get a different sentence from a bank robber in California;"