And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
AL FRANKENAll concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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But 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.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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