My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
AL FRANKENMinnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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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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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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