Quote

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

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
Parent
Graduate
High
Printing
Working
Graduates
Money
Essentially
Didn
Dad
School
Career
Make
Careers
Life
Parents
Salesman

More quotes by 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
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
If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
Al Franken
Image
My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
Al Franken
Image
Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine.
Al Franken
Image
I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
Al Franken
Image
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
Al Franken
Image
Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
Al Franken
Image
I just can't sit still and meditate that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.
Al Franken
Image
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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
Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.
Al Franken
Image
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
Al Franken
Image
Whining is anger through a small opening.
Al Franken
Image
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken
Image
He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
Al Franken
Image
Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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 plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
Al Franken
Image
If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.
Al Franken