They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENThey’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENI hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKENI’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
AL FRANKENI had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
AL FRANKENThe right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
AL FRANKENThis is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
AL FRANKENPart of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
AL FRANKENYeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
AL FRANKENI feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
AL FRANKENCall-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.
AL FRANKENCompared 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 FRANKENThe 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.
AL FRANKENThere is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
AL FRANKENThe Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
AL FRANKENI think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
AL FRANKENIf we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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