But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
AL FRANKENI felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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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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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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