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.
AL FRANKENNet neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
AL FRANKEN -
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
AL FRANKEN -
If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
AL FRANKEN -
I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
AL FRANKEN -
Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
AL FRANKEN -
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
AL FRANKEN -
Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
AL FRANKEN -
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
AL FRANKEN -
Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
AL FRANKEN -
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
AL FRANKEN -
Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
AL FRANKEN -
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKEN -
We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
AL FRANKEN -
This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
AL FRANKEN -
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
AL FRANKEN