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.
AL FRANKENAsking 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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 adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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