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.
AL FRANKENI’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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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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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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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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