Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
AL FRANKENComedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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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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