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.
AL FRANKENAntitrust 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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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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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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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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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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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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.
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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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