If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKENFor 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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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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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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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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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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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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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