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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.

Al Franken

I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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