I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
AL FRANKENI’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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