My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
AL FRANKENBut when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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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 civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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