They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENWe basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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