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.
AL FRANKENAfter my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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 love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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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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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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