Al Franken
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BARBARA DOOLEY DENNIS CARDOZA CANELO ALVAREZ STOCKWELL DAY I just hope we have been a positive influence on Charleston entertainment. It means a lot more to me... JOE MELI PETER MCWILLIAMS Its going to be tough on everyone for a few months, ... but were a lot better off than the rest. JAMES PERRY It (the current system) is a question of who's in power and who is able to use the process for polit... BEN WILCOX To surrender our control is to become vulnerable to pain, but within that vulnerability there is pow... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli politics. Our great national leader is crippled?... AVI DICHTER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS MARTIN SCORSESE Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful ... 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AHMET NECDET SEZNER My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down'... SALLY PHILLIPS ANDREW JACKSON JOHN DOOLITTLE The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the str... JACK KEANE When the party with no power can raise more money than the party with all the power, it means people... ORIN KRAMER CAROLINE KENNEDY ARISTOTLE Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po... CHUCK HAGEL PAUL WELLSTONE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE JOAN KONNER The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy, and Congress must do everything in its power to e... LASHAWN WARREN We have not put our dollars into that system and the power of compounding interest is working agains... JON CORZINE JANE SEYMOUR Utilities that create power have gone from selling their power locally to being able to sell their p... RODNEY BOURNE There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our eco... JIM JEFFORDS PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY TIGER WOODS We cannot afford to be discouraged from challenging the corporate control of our food system, our ge... WENONAH HAUTER GARRY KASPAROV CRAIG GROESCHEL JULIAN BAGGINI SUN YAT-SEN JOSE SARAMAGO Our season is going pretty well. We only have four kids who have swam for more than three years and ... JUAN DOMINGUEZ MARK TWAIN ALBERT SHANKER DAVID BRIN JILL LEPORE WILLIAM J. CLINTON PARKER PALMER If firms need pricing power, they should be clamoring for the highest possible rates of inflation. F... JOSHUA FEINMAN Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, ... DMITRY MEDVEDEV People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... JOSEPH SCHUMPETER JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER HOWARD ZINN PATRICK M. BYRNE CONOR OBERST FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WILLA CATHER HELEN SUZMAN We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough grat... VIRGIL GOODE FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: th... ALEX CAREY MITT ROMNEY If a player's No. 1 priority is just to showcase his skills, that won't work here. They have to lear... DOUG WAGEMESTER More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric rea... BILL DEDMAN It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power ... JESSYE NORMAN I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identifi... SHERMAN ALEXIE
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ROSE FRANKEN Never Muddy the People you Love ROSE FRANKEN Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ROSE FRANKEN The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro... AL-HASAN AL-BASRI AL GORE AL GORE Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful. AL JARREAU AL GOLDSTEIN My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf... AL JARDINE People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We l... AL ROKER AL GORE AL GORE AL SHARPTON AL SHARPTON AL SHARPTON AL OERTER AL OERTER AL OERTER AL OERTER AL OERTER AL OERTER AL SHARPTON Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognitio... AL PEACOCK I learned years ago you can shape your own destiny if you do get involved. There have always been a ... AL PAZAR There's a lot of overcapacity in the fishery that will need to be addressed. Probably that won't be ... AL PAZAR Every time you lose that pre-soak, the danger increases. It's the race to fish. AL PAZAR Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. Th... AL PAZAR It broke down this year, with both sides not able to agree, and so we went into our usual free-for-a... AL PAZAR That's fine if you keep playing this record over and over. It is going to be a very strong spring. T... AL PARISH It's going to continue to make realtors very happy. I haven't seen any unhappy people in that indust... AL PARISH Even though it's not the biggest property, it's getting in excess of $300 a night for a room. That's... AL PARISH It doesn't mean that everybody's condo went up 37 percent. It means they built more expensive condos... AL PARISH CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas... AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas... AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas... AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas... AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas... AL NUGENT That's Fry. She settled down and came through for us. AL NORTHINGTON We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit. AL NORTHINGTON We didn't finish in that game. Tonight we finished. AL NORTHINGTON We made some mental mistakes, but we're still so young, and that's going to happen. Our four freshme... AL NORTHINGTON I'm so proud of these kids. It's a wonderful feeling to see these kids progress. This is a win for t... AL NORTHINGTON The president believes very strongly that this is going to have a major, major impact on economic gr... AL HUBBARD The recovery will be paid for by the federal taxpayer and it will add to the deficit. AL HUBBARD It's coming from the American taxpayer. AL HUBBARD The last thing in the world we need to do is raise taxes and retard economic growth. AL HUBBARD Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy... AL HUBBARD The president is totally committed to Social Security reform. AL HUBBARD Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We'... AL HORFORD Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villa... AL HORFORD It's great to see your son doing his job on the court. But it was no surprise. AL HORFORD There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times... AL HORFORD We're so anxious for the game to get here. AL HORFORD We lost most of our scoring (from a year ago). But we knew we were going to come out here and make t... AL HORFORD You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it. AL HORFORD You could just see it in their eyes. That's when we go for the kill. AL HORFORD I am feeling a lot better; I'm taking care of myself drinking a lot of fluids and stuff. So I feel p... AL HORFORD They were leaving the wrong guy open. When you leave Lee, he's going to make you pay for it. AL HORFORD [He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu... AL HIRT I don't know, ... I do not know. AL HIRT I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated. AL HIRT The New Orleans I knew is gone, ... It's never going to come back. I'm just grateful I had my years ... AL HIRT When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die befo... AL HIRT Rich could play way better than Krupa. AL HIRT Old Sharkey had a fat sound, man. He could blow like wild fire and when he played, I am telling you,... AL HIRT I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business. AL HIRT A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style. AL HIRT You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested ... AL HIRSCHFELD We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a... AL HIRSCHFELD You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done, ... I am only intereste... AL HIRSCHFELD When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experienc... AL HIRSCHFELD Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go. AL HIRSCHFELD Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. AL HIRSCHFELD $250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be... AL HENRY I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex... AL HENRY Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine. AL HENRY This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner. AL HENRY I know the feds give us the same amount of money, as does the state, as does the county. But there's... AL HARTKOPF A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap. AL HARTKOPF I knew it was going to end up badly. AL HARTKOPF If it causes a little bit of difficulty for us, it just does. AL HARTKOPF I have very mixed feelings on it. I totally get where the commissioners are coming from. I see the p... AL HARTKOPF Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it. AL HARRIS
It is with great pleasure that I see the political system of almost every power in Europe changing i... 
Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastatin... 
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When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good pl... 
There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of ... 
Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that peopl... 
Everyone is born equal; we will all die and shed our earthly glory. Riches, power and fame last for ... 
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativi... 
There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. 
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working togethe... 
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a s... 
Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of po... 
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Our power to think is infinite, consequently that means our creative power is unlimited! 
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system lik... 
Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. I... 
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stri... 
There's a lot more to me than just power. 
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The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the med... 
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power. 
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However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first re... 
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a str... 
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What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man... 
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I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best. 
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