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.
AL FRANKENWhen the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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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 lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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