The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
AL FRANKENVeterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
More Al Franken Quotes
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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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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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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