This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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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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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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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