Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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 don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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