Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
AL FRANKENI ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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