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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

Al Franken

One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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Guy Hide Notice One Politics Pretty Thick Thing
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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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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Elect First Funny People Really Should Show Think
But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

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