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.
AL FRANKENHe [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
More Al Franken Quotes
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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