Al FrankenMy 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 t… ▶361Politics
Al FrankenProgressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build. ✨ Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011 by Al Frank… ▶351Humor
Al FrankenLiberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.351Love
Al FrankenI do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.351Humanity
Al FrankenSome of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans str… ▶374Politics
Al FrankenIt's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the… ▶374Death
Al FrankenNet neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged. ✨ Net Neutrality Is Under Attack... Again by Al Franken, www.hu… ▶331Politics
Al FrankenI 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… ▶342DeathHumanityLove
Al FrankenAnd I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to underst… ▶375HumanityHumorReading
Al FrankenNet neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet. ✨ Net Neutrality Is Under Attack... Again by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.… ▶366Truth
Al FrankenDuring 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… ▶366LifeTime
Al FrankenTechnology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans. ✨ Privacy And Civil Li… ▶378HumanityLife
Al FrankenMy 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. 345Love
Al FrankenAs someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and wome… ▶323LifeTime
Al FrankenHumor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.334Humor
Al FrankenThe institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the private sector. The Fourth Amendment doesn't ap… ▶291Politics
Al FrankenPart of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promi… ▶313LifeTime
Al FrankenIf 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 yo… ▶368Reading
Al FrankenI'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the… ▶291HumanityReflectionTime
Al FrankenNo one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.335Hope
Al FrankenBob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor. ✨ Interview with Richard Blow, www.motherjones.com. November, 1996… ▶346Humor
Al FrankenToday I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written Today I will masterbate--if I want to!324Philosophy
Al FrankenI felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, goo… ▶336Time
Al FrankenWhen the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. ✨ If Clark is Schwarzenegger, who is Huffington? by John Me… ▶281Time
Al FrankenService dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being. ✨ Franken, unleashes first bill by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 20, 2009.303Politics
Al FrankenI just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.314Thought
Al FrankenI don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.303Death
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 … ▶304PoliticsTime
Al FrankenDuring Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to pre… ▶348DeathHumorPolitics
Al FrankenWhen people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and sei… ▶326HumanityPolitics
