Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
AL FRANKENI like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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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.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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