I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
AL FRANKENMost people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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