There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
AL FRANKENWhat you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
More Al Franken Quotes
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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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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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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