My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
AL FRANKENTo 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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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 think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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