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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
Al FrankenAl Franken Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
Al FrankenAl Franken Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
Al FrankenAl Franken If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
Al FrankenAl Franken A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
Al FrankenAl Franken You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
Al FrankenAl Franken The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.’
Al FrankenAl Franken When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
Al FrankenAl Franken I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
Al FrankenAl Franken They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.
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