When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
AL FRANKENThe 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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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