I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
AL FRANKENBut 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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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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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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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