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.
AL FRANKENI am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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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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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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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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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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