What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
AL FRANKENIf we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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