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 FRANKENWell, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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