Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
AL FRANKENRush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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It’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.
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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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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