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AL FRANKENI might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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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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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 crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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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.
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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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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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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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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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