I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
AL FRANKENI’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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