My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENThe thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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There 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.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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