Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
AL FRANKENI am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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.
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