I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENThey’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
More Al Franken Quotes
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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But 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.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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