The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
AL FRANKENSometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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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’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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