I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
AL FRANKENThe government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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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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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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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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