I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
More Al Franken Quotes
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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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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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 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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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