Al Franken Quotes, Lying Quotes, Liars Quotes

There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, 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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

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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 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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

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I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

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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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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.

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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.

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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

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