I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
AL FRANKENThe guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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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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It 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.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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