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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

Al Franken

Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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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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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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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 know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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