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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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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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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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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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