I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
AL FRANKENRush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
AL FRANKEN -
If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
AL FRANKEN -
Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
AL FRANKEN -
Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
AL FRANKEN -
Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
AL FRANKEN -
Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
AL FRANKEN -
Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
AL FRANKEN -
Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
AL FRANKEN -
The 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 FRANKEN -
Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
AL FRANKEN -
It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
AL FRANKEN -
I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
AL FRANKEN -
That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
AL FRANKEN -
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
AL FRANKEN -
I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
AL FRANKEN