Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
AL FRANKENI 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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