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.
AL FRANKENThere 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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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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