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.
AL FRANKEN
AL FRANKEN
Al Franken on conversation
Al Franken250 quotes“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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
Al FrankenAl Franken My dad was a terrible businessman.
Al FrankenAl Franken If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
Al FrankenAl Franken Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
Al FrankenAl Franken I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
Al FrankenAl Franken I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
Al FrankenAl Franken Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
Al FrankenAl Franken My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
Al FrankenAl Franken Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
Al FrankenAl Franken There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
Al FrankenAl Franken The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
Al FrankenAl Franken 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.
Al FrankenAl Franken I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
Al FrankenAl Franken Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business,
Kevin HartKevin Hart You know, I’m trying to chase rings, and that’s all I’m about. So that’s where the conversation stops for me.
Stephen CurryStephen Curry I’ve owned 41 airplanes. A few of them would talk with me. This little seaplane, though, we’ve had long conversations in flight.
Richard BachRichard Bach There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de MontaigneMichel de Montaigne Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre MauroisAndre Maurois A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre MauroisAndre Maurois Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld