Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
AL FRANKENMost Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
More Al Franken Quotes
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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 know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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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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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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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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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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