During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
AL FRANKENWhen you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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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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Google might be doping the horses.
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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.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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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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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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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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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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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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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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