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Al Franken

I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Civil Fight Liberal Like Right Tradition
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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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Fight Government Net Neutrality Out Sell
The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Call Here Media Most
Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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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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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Demagoguery Else Mean On Put Radio Sell Something Station
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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Best Connect Do Everybody Good Mean People Real Right Sense Thing Universe
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Amendment Apply Corporation Fourth
I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Comedian Dad Especially Love People
We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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