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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More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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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.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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