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.
AL FRANKENWhining is anger through a small opening.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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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 people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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