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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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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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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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