But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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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 also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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People 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.
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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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