Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
AL FRANKENRalph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
AL FRANKENI 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.’
AL FRANKENI do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
AL FRANKENThere’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
AL FRANKENWhich is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
AL FRANKENBut adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
AL FRANKENThere are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
AL FRANKENIt is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
AL FRANKENThere’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
AL FRANKENI do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
AL FRANKENLove takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
AL FRANKENWe don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
AL FRANKENTeen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
AL FRANKENWhining is anger through a small opening.
AL FRANKENTend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
AL FRANKEN