I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
AL FRANKENYou 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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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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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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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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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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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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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