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.
AL FRANKENI’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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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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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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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Demagoguery 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.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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