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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
Al FrankenAl Franken Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
Al FrankenAl Franken Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
Al FrankenAl Franken My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
Al FrankenAl Franken I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
Al FrankenAl Franken We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
Al FrankenAl Franken I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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;
Al FrankenAl Franken I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
Al FrankenAl Franken My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
Al FrankenAl Franken Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
Al FrankenAl Franken Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
Al FrankenAl Franken One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.
Ted CruzTed Cruz I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
Liz TrussLiz Truss I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.
C. V. RamanC. V. Raman In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan DundesAlan Dundes There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.
Alan ClarkAlan Clark Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
Al FrankenAl Franken In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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