By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
AL FRANKENThere’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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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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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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