I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
AL FRANKENSometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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.
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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.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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