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.
AL FRANKENThe civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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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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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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