There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
AL FRANKENI anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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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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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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