My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
AL FRANKENMy dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
More Al Franken Quotes
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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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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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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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