Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
AL FRANKENGoogle might be doping the horses.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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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 guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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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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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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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 felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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