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 FRANKENBut God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
AL FRANKEN -
My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
AL FRANKEN -
Google might be doping the horses.
AL FRANKEN -
The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
AL FRANKEN -
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
AL FRANKEN -
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
AL FRANKEN -
I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
AL FRANKEN -
Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
AL FRANKEN -
I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
AL FRANKEN -
The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
AL FRANKEN -
The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
AL FRANKEN -
Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
AL FRANKEN -
I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
AL FRANKEN -
Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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 -
It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
AL FRANKEN -
We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
AL FRANKEN -
They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
AL FRANKEN -
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
AL FRANKEN -
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
AL FRANKEN -
They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKEN -
We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
AL FRANKEN