If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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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 believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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