They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
AL FRANKENThe next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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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 know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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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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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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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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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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