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.
AL FRANKEN
AL FRANKEN
Al Franken on chance
Al Franken250 quotes“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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
Al FrankenAl Franken Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
Al FrankenAl Franken Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
Al FrankenAl Franken Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
Al FrankenAl Franken Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
Al FrankenAl Franken Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
Al FrankenAl Franken They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Al FrankenAl Franken Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
Al FrankenAl Franken But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Al FrankenAl Franken Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
Al FrankenAl Franken I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
Al FrankenAl Franken My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
Al FrankenAl Franken Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Bai LingBai Ling On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.
Barry NelsonBarry Nelson The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
B. H. Liddell HartB. H. Liddell Hart I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
Barry LevinsonBarry Levinson Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.
Richard WrightRichard Wright I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing i have you beat at, and i’ll bring it up every chance i get.
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