Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
More Al Franken Quotes
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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 the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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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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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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