The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
AL FRANKENWe owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
AL FRANKEN -
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
AL FRANKEN -
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKEN -
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
AL FRANKEN -
that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
AL FRANKEN -
I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
AL FRANKEN -
The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
AL FRANKEN -
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
AL FRANKEN