I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
AL FRANKENI want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
More Al Franken Quotes
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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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.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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