This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
AL FRANKENMy parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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