Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
AL FRANKENGood 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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