I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
AL FRANKENWell, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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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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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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