I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
AL FRANKENHe 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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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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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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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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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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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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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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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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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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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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 think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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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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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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