We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
AL FRANKENWe don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with 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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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 if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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