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.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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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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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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