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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.

Al Franken

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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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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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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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