I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENThey had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
More Al Franken Quotes
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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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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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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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.
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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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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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