I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
AL FRANKENRussia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
More Al Franken Quotes
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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