Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
AL FRANKENBut when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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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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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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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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Google might be doping the horses.
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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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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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