15 Badass Quotes By - Al Franken

15 Badass Quotes By - Al Frankene

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

— Al Franken

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

— Al Franken

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 out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'

— Al Franken

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

— Al Franken

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

— Al Franken

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 their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.

— Al Franken

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

— Al Franken

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

— Al Franken

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. 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.

— Al Franken

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.

— Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

— Al Franken

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

— Al Franken

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.

— Al Franken

Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.

— Al Franken

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

— Al Franken

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