Political Quotes

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
our system is broken when, if you do things right, you cannot see your wife and your four kids or cannot even get the application started going in about two and a half years.
Said by
Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Franken highlights delays in family reunification for legal immigrants.

Share & report

More from Al Franken

Dec 22, 2020

This is not the time you threatened to veto a bill. You -- first of all, you should have been here -- there negotiating the whole time.

msnbc.com
Oct 4, 2021

He’s going to send it out. He’s, as he said, you know, before the commercial, he said he’s destroyed the Senate. He did that by -- he did more filibusters of executive nominees during Obama than been done in the previous history of the…

msnbc.com
Mar 16, 2021

I have been pushing something that Norm Ornstein and I have worked on together for a long time, which would be a reform of the filibuster.

msnbc.com
Jun 17, 2021

They pack the court with Federalist Society judges during Trump and with really partisan, unqualified judges.

msnbc.com

Other voices in this conversation