And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
AL FRANKENThe Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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.
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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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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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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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During 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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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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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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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