Al Franken actually said...

"I have been fighting to get the--I had actually a bipartisan piece in the Senate side of what is now called Dodd-Frank, the Wall Street reform bill, to fix this."

"I just want to ask you for your support, as we go forward, in making sure that our criminal justice system is not just wasting money, but wasting lives."

"We have used our criminal justice system as a substitute for a well-functioning mental health system."

"To me, this is just too big, and they would have unprecedented power in the telecommunications industry."