When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
AL FRANKENWe lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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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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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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