Al Franken Quotes

• When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn’t realize he meant our nation.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny, Politics

  Tags in Comedian

• 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 – they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Veterans, Developed, Objective, Liberal, Been, Being, Stuff

• If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberals, Actually, Troops, Armed, Forces, Against, Soldiers

• Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pressure, Comedian, Communicating, Being, Obviously

• Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny, Money

  Tags in Three, Comedian, Year, Right, Enough, Pretty, Much, First

• To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conservative, Argument, Problem

• I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Allowed, Different, Administration, Probably

• The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Interests, Ratings, Good, Learn, School

• 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. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Mistake

• Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.

  Al Franken

  Tags in Comedian

• We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

  Al Franken

• The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues – 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

  Tags in National, Apparatus, Minor

• 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.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian

• The 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.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Progressive, Senate, Focused

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Money

• It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny, Nature

  Tags in American, Comedian

• It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian

• I 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 Franken

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian

• I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

  Al Franken

  Tags in Personal Attacks

• But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

  Al Franken

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian

Al Franken (22)

Birth:	21st May, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Anchor, Author, Politician

About

Alan Stuart Franken is an American politician, and the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Democratic Party, in 2008 he narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman by 312 votes. After the results of a statewide manual recount and subsequent lawsuit by Coleman, the Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld Franken's victory on June 30, 2009, and he was sworn into the Senate on July 7, 2009. Before serving in the Senate, he was an acclaimed writer and performer for the popular television show Saturday Night Live from its conception in 1975. After television, he hosted his nationally syndicated, political radio talk show The Al Franken Show, and authored five books.

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