Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
AL FRANKENI hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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