There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
AL FRANKENThe only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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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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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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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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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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