Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
AL FRANKENI think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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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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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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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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