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.
AL FRANKENI felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
More Al Franken Quotes
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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