I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
AL FRANKENIn 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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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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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.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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