But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
AL FRANKENI know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
AL FRANKEN -
There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
AL FRANKEN -
What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
AL FRANKEN -
My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKEN -
He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
AL FRANKEN -
Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
AL FRANKEN -
Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
AL FRANKEN -
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
AL FRANKEN -
We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
AL FRANKEN -
I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
AL FRANKEN -
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
AL FRANKEN -
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
AL FRANKEN -
Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
AL FRANKEN -
It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
AL FRANKEN -
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
AL FRANKEN -
For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
AL FRANKEN -
There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN