I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
AL FRANKENIt’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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 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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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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It 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.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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