I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKENFor 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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