After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
AL FRANKENWell, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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