I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
AL FRANKENMost people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
AL FRANKEN -
The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
AL FRANKEN -
We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
AL FRANKEN -
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
AL FRANKEN -
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
AL FRANKEN -
creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
AL FRANKEN -
I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
AL FRANKEN -
No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
AL FRANKEN -
We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
AL FRANKEN -
And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
AL FRANKEN -
Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
AL FRANKEN -
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
AL FRANKEN -
The 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.
AL FRANKEN -
What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
AL FRANKEN -
I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
AL FRANKEN -
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
AL FRANKEN -
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?
AL FRANKEN -
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
AL FRANKEN