Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
AL FRANKENIn my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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 thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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