Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
AL FRANKENIn our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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