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 FRANKENYou might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
More Al Franken Quotes
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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 felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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