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Al Franken

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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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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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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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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The 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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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