Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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