As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
AL FRANKENAntitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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I 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.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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