Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
AL FRANKENGary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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 loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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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 do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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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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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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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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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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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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