Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
AL FRANKENMost Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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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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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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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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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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 just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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