In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
AL FRANKENThis 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.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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