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.
AL FRANKENGary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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But 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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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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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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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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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