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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More Al Franken Quotes
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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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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