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.
AL FRANKENIt is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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There 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.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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