I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
AL FRANKENI’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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