I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
AL FRANKENI feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
More Al Franken Quotes
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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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 don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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