Al Franken Quotes (38 Quotes)


    reject the government's cruel and cynical interpretation.

    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 - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

    When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

    It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

    When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.


    I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-one it, people like me.

    The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

    I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'

    We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.


    I'm neutral in this race but I'm for freedom of speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down.

    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 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

    I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

    To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

    There's no liberal echo chamber in this country. There's a right-wing echo chamber. I want to create a countervailing echo chamber.

    He'd be natural liberal Senator. Nobody listens to him.

    I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

    Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

    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 not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

    I would like a dark chocolate Almond Joy.

    And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

    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 much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

    There's been a lot of back and forth between the two of us and this is just a good way to clear the air,

    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.

    It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

    Unfortunately, America wasn't paying attention when he was giving his stump speech.

    A brief digression on whether that suspicious-looking mole is actually cancer. ... Take this simple test called the ABC test. 'A' is for age. What is your age Is it over thirteen If so, it's cancer. That's how the ABC test works.

    not good enough to be endorsed by Fox News.

    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.

    I don't know why they did it and I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul.

    The irony upon irony of this lawsuit was great. First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' -- a network which is anything but fair and balanced. Then there's the irony of a news organization trying to suppress free speech.

    Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

    Hey, (Rep. Lindsey) Graham is going to give some reply. Why don't you come to this press conference

    If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

    I heard versions of the speech before and I thought it was great. You go with your 'A' material. As an old comic, that's what I say. Go with your 'A' material.

    The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

    I still do pure comedy - I recently did Prairie Home Companion, and I told a sweet, funny story that had nothing to do with politics.

    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. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.


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