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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. (Al Franken)
My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time. View quote
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There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.' View quote
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I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven. View quote
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee - a tradition I'd like very much to continue. View quote
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty. View quote
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The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders. View quote
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me. (Al Franken)
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. View quote
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It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate. View quote
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I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for. View quote
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Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine. View quote
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it. View quote
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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime. View quote
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I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it. View quote
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question. View quote
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I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve. View quote
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception. (Al Franken)
I've spent my entire career being a satirist. View quote
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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. View quote
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate. View quote
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Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free. View quote
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