I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
AL FRANKENI’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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 grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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