To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
AL FRANKENRussia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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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 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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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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