I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
AL FRANKENPeople lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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 think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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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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