Al Franken Quotes, Team Quotes, Years Quotes

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.

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Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. 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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My dad was a terrible businessman.

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It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.

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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

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Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

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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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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. 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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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn't take their advice.

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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

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Most 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.

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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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I 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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