It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
AL FRANKENSkepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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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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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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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.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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