I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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More Al Franken Quotes
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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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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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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 hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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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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