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.
AL FRANKENThere 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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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.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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