There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
AL FRANKENI want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
More Al Franken Quotes
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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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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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