Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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