He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
AL FRANKENThe thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
More Al Franken Quotes
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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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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