My dad was a terrible businessman.

— Al Franken

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

— Al Franken

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

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

— Al Franken

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

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.

— Al Franken

Paul's greatest contribution to the progressive cause wasn't what he accomplished in the senate, although he accomplished a lot. It's the way he inspired others to take action, and taught them to be effective, and gave them the confidence to stand up and shout about what they believed it.

— Al Franken

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Well stone (Minnesota Senator, Al Frankel predecessor)

— Al Franken

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

— Al Franken

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

— Al Franken