Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
AL FRANKENI like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
More Al Franken Quotes
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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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 wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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