I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENWe need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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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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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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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.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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