When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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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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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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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