I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
AL FRANKENIt’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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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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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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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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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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