You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
AL FRANKENYeah, 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.
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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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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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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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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 a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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