I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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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.
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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 got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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