The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
AL FRANKENIf Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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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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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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