We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
AL FRANKENI don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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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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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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