They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENThe right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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