And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
AL FRANKENThe Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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 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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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