When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
AL FRANKENMy 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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The 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 together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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