A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
AL FRANKENI think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
More Al Franken Quotes
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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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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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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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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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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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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