Al Franken: “I think it's needed research to make sure that this, the fracking, is done in an environmentally friendly way.”

We have to pass this bill and you can carve out and say for, you know, elections, this is our democracy.

He’s going to send it out. He’s, as he said, you know, before the commercial, he said he’s destroyed the Senate. He did that by -- he did more filibusters of executive nominees during Obama than been done in the previous history of the…

Harry was very encouraging. In fact, Chuck Schumer was less so. And Harry was really the one who got behind me and I won that first one, I clobbered Norm Coleman by 312 votes, as you may recall.

The Republican Party has become something almost unrecognizable. When I started there, it was tough then but it just got worse and worse and worse and worse.