But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
AL FRANKENI think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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