Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
More Al Franken Quotes
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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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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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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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.
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