Al Franken actually said...

"the Federal Government does something, it's bad, and it's good if private innovation does it."

"the cause of these brownouts and the extra charges to the State of California was not caused by regulation, but was caused by companies like Enron ripping Granny off?"

"Congress' job of triage in this case, as Senator Franken noted, is to eliminate the glaring problems first."

"McNamara's fallacy is that things that can be easily measured will be measured and will be considered important."