I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
AL FRANKENWe basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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