During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
AL FRANKENThis is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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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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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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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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