What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
AL FRANKENThe 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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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