He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
AL FRANKENDuring the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
More Al Franken Quotes
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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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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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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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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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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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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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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