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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Al Franken

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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Elect First Funny People Really Should Show Think
If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Humor Look Really Sense Terrorist
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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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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Confuse Consider Majority Middle Mushball People Position Thankful
Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Cover Do Easy Make Money Rate Stories
I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Back Have Need Pro-science Science
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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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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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

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