I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
AL FRANKENDuring Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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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.
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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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