When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
AL FRANKENI ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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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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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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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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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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