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.
AL FRANKENI got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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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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