Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
AL FRANKENThe Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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After 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.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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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 like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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