I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENI think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENThe civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
AL FRANKENI don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
AL FRANKENBut when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
AL FRANKENI am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
AL FRANKENIt’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.
AL FRANKENThe Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
AL FRANKENThe right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
AL FRANKENBut in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
AL FRANKENBill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
AL FRANKENMost people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
AL FRANKENRussia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
AL FRANKENLet’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
AL FRANKENNet neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
AL FRANKENI once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
AL FRANKENThey’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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