A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
AL FRANKENWhen you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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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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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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