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AL FRANKENI’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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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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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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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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