But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
AL FRANKENOh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
More Al Franken Quotes
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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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.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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 got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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