that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
AL FRANKENThe civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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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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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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