As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
AL FRANKENThat’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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