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.
AL FRANKENThere’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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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 hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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 don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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