I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
AL FRANKENIf I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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