I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
AL FRANKENWe lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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