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.
AL FRANKENI got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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