And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
-
-
Google might be doping the horses.
AL FRANKEN -
I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
AL FRANKEN -
Comedy 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.
AL FRANKEN -
The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
AL FRANKEN -
If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
AL FRANKEN -
If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKEN -
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.
AL FRANKEN -
They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
AL FRANKEN -
I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKEN -
If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
AL FRANKEN -
We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
AL FRANKEN