My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
AL FRANKENIf someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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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.’
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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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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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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