And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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 the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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