I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
AL FRANKENAnd terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
More Al Franken Quotes
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This 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.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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The 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.
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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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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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