Quotes by Al Franken

About Al Franken:

Alan Stuart is an American comedian, actor, politician, and writer. He is currently the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live. After several decades as a comedic actor and writer, he became a prominent liberal political activist and was elected to the United States Senate, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman in 2008. Franken is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the Democratic Party.
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I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

Al Franken

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

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I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

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We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell.

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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

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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 more likely to secure their smartphones.

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I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent ...

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Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

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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.

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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

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

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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue.

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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 Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.

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Author Bio

  • NameAl Franken
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian and politician
  • AliasesAlan Stuart Franken
  • BornMay 21, 1951
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Television Actor; Actor; Film Actor; Politician; Radio Host; Author
  • WorksLies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award