My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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There 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.
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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 point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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