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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

Al Franken

My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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In 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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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

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