My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENIt was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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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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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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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 the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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