When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
AL FRANKENThe institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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