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.
AL FRANKENSome of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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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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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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