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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.

Al Franken

We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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