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.
AL FRANKENI’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
More Al Franken Quotes
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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