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.
AL FRANKENThere’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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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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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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