He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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It 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.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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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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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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