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.
AL FRANKENTechnology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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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.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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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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