I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
AL FRANKENGrown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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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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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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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I 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.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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