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.
AL FRANKENDemagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
More Al Franken Quotes
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Some 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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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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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 think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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