All Al Franken Quotes
- 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… Big
- The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send… Care
- 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… Back Home
- The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into… Book
- The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on… Agenda
- The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's… Bit
- 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… Democratic
- There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill… Ballot
- There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous. American
- There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying… Balanced
- 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… Al
- Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners… Anticipate
- Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran… Avert
- We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk… Avoid
- 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… Addressed
- Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people.… Been
- When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions… Able
- When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites… Blockbuster
- 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… Advocate
- Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how… Capital