Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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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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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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