Al Franken on administration
Al Franken250 quotes“I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.”
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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.
Al FrankenAl Franken It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
Al FrankenAl Franken Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
Al FrankenAl Franken As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
Al FrankenAl Franken What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
Al FrankenAl Franken The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
Al FrankenAl Franken Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.
Bill McKibbenBill McKibben I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.
Bill McCollumBill McCollum If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
Bill O'ReillyBill O'Reilly The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
Ben BradleeBen Bradlee The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad We don’t have a lot of expectations [for Donald J. Trump] because the American administration is not only about the President; it’s about different powers within this administration, the different lobbies that they are going to influence any President.
Bashar al-AssadBashar al-Assad The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
Baron de MontesquieuBaron de Montesquieu Mistakes were made is something we heard back in ’92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration’s mantra. I can’t imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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