Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
AL FRANKENLet’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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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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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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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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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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