He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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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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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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