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.
AL FRANKENIt’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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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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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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