I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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 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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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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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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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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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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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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