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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More Al Franken Quotes
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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.
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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.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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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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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.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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