Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
AL FRANKENMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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 wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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Why 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.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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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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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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