When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
AL FRANKENThere is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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