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.
AL FRANKENAntitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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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 think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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