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Al Franken

12 quotes

“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.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oh, the Things I Know (2002)
“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oh, the Things I Know (2002)
“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.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them (2003)
“What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)
“Net neutrality is the First Amendment issue of our time. Today, a blog can load as fast as the Wall Street Journal — and, if the blog is good, it can get more traffic than any media conglomerate. But if bigger companies can pay for faster, priority Internet access, that blogger no longer has a shot. And these big companies know that when they pay for access, they win. They want preferred treatment on the Internet like the preferred treatment they get in the rest of their lives.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sen. Franken's Speech to Free Press Group in Minneapolis" (19 August 2010)
“I've said that net neutrality is the most important free speech issue of our time. It's true. If Republicans have their way, large corporations won't just have the loudest voices in the room. They'll be able to effectively silence everyone else. Every small business they'd prefer not to compete with. Every blogger who publishes something they don't like. We have to stop them.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Net Neutrality Is Under Attack... Again" in The Huffington Post (8 November 2011)
“The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sen. Franken Speaks on Senate Floor in Support of Richard Cordray to Head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (7 December 2011);
“Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document. But we have a long way to go to get our modern privacy laws in line with modern technology.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Privacy and Civil Liberties in the Digital Age" in WIRED (2 March 2012)
“In the United States of America, satire is protected speech, even if the object of the satire doesn’t get it.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Trump Era Is Al Franken’s Time to Shine" by Graham Vyse, in New Republic (2 February 2017)
“If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America. ... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. 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. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003)
“Some of the same people who were instrumental in the Federalist Society’s effort to change our legal system are now working to help corporations increase their control over the flow of information. If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country. … But we can’t be satisfied with stopping conservatives and their corporate clients from controlling the narrative when it comes to our legal system. We have to fight back with our own. In our narrative, the legal system doesn’t exist to help the powerful grow more powerful – it exists to guarantee that every American is entitled to justice In our narrative, we defend our individual rights and liberties against corporate encroachment just as fiercely as we defend them against government overreach.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Eighth Annual American Constitution Society National Convention (17 June 2010)
“The first thing I want to do is apologize: to Leeann, to everyone else who was part of that tour, to everyone who has worked for me, to everyone I represent, and to everyone who counts on me to be an ally and supporter and champion of women. There's more I want to say, but the first and most important thing—and if it's the only thing you care to hear, that's fine—is: I'm sorry. I respect women. I don't respect men who don't. And the fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed. But I want to say something else, too. Over the last few months, all of us—including and especially men who respect women—have been forced to take a good, hard look at our own actions and think (perhaps, shamefully, for the first time) about how those actions have affected women. For instance, that picture [when Franken appears to grope the breasts of a sleeping Leeann Tweeden, while simultaneously smiling towards the photographer] I don't know what was in my head when I took that picture, and it doesn't matter. There's no excuse. I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself. It isn't funny. It's completely inappropriate. It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture. And, what's more, I can see how millions of other women would feel violated by it—women who have had similar experiences in their own lives, women who fear having those experiences, women who look up to me, women who have counted on me.”
Al Franken (born 1951) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November 2017 statement in response to allegations of sexual harassment and groping made by Leeann Tweeden against Franken.