When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
AL FRANKENAnd I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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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 want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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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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