I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKENOh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
More Al Franken Quotes
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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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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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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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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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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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