Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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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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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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