I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
AL FRANKENYou 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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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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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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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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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 get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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