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.
AL FRANKENWe 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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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 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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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