My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
AL FRANKENThe biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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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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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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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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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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