It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
AL FRANKENHe didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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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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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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