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.
AL FRANKENIt is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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