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.
AL FRANKENI’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
More Al Franken Quotes
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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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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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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