I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
AL FRANKENLiberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
More Al Franken Quotes
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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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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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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