We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
AL FRANKENIf 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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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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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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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