After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
AL FRANKENI’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
More Al Franken Quotes
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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