Quote

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Al Franken

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
United States Senator
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alan Stuart Franken
Alan Stuart Al Franken
Interested
Movement
Rights
Politics
Vietnam
Civil

More quotes by Al Franken

Image
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
Al Franken
Image
I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
Al Franken
Image
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
Al Franken
Image
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'
Al Franken
Image
I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
Al Franken
Image
I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
Al Franken
Image
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
Al Franken
Image
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.
Al Franken
Image
It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
Al Franken
Image
My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
Al Franken
Image
I'm for Israel's right to exist.
Al Franken
Image
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'
Al Franken
Image
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
Al Franken
Image
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.
Al Franken
Image
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
Al Franken
Image
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
Al Franken
Image
I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It's just hard to get comfortable with Gore - it was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
Al Franken
Image
There's going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration's relationship to Russia.
Al Franken
Image
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.
Al Franken
Image
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
Al Franken