They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENAnd when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
More Al Franken Quotes
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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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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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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