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One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
Al Franken
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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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Alan Stuart Franken
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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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.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.
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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.
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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. 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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.
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My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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