They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
AL FRANKENThe 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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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