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.
AL FRANKENI’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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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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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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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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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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