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.
AL FRANKENWhy don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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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.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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