They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENThere is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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