My dad was a terrible businessman.
AL FRANKENSome of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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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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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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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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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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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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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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