My dad was a terrible businessman.
AL FRANKENI’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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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 ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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