My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENMy dad was a terrible businessman.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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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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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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