I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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