My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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 feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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