If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
AL FRANKENI hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
More Al Franken Quotes
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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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.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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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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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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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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