Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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