Al Franken Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Al Franken

  Powerful, Media, Should Have

  "The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

  Al Franken

  Looks, Sense Of Humor, Terrorist

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• If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

  Al Franken

  Father, President, Kind

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2000.

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• Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

  Al Franken

  Fighting, Government, Neutrality

  "Al Franken seeks Net neutrality support at SXSW". South by Southwest Interactive Festival conference, www.cnet.com. March 14, 2011.

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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. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.

  Al Franken

  School, Government, Careers

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.6, Penguin

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• I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.

  Al Franken

  Lying, Media, Wings

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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.

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  Art, Writing, People

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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; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. 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.

  Al Franken

  Wall, Mean, Thinking

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• I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

  Al Franken

  Careers, Satirist

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2003.

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• You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.

  Al Franken

  Country, Children, Mean

  "Al Franken Flashback: Controversial Heeb Magazine Interview". Interview with Heather Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2011.

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• In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

  Al Franken

  Judging, Hearing, Firsts

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• Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

  Al Franken

  Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Internet

  "Net Neutrality Is Under Attack... Again" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

  Al Franken

  Issues, Sensitive, Overeating

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.

  Al Franken

  Want, Way

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.

  Al Franken

  America, Different, Way

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• My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

  Al Franken

  Dad, Comedian, My Dad

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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

  Pregnancy, Use, Way

  "Live from the Headlines" with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

  Al Franken

  Political, Purpose, Use

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• The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

  Al Franken

  Corporations, Amendments, Fourth Amendment

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• The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

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  Innovation, Neutrality, Internet

  "Defining Internet 'Freedom': Ars Interviews Senator Al Franken" by Nate Anderson, www.wired.com. March 01, 2011.

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• When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

  Al Franken

  Technology, Way, Constitution

  "Privacy and civil liberties in the digital age" by Al Franken, www.wired.com. March 2, 2012.

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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.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Neutrality, Pace

  "Defining Internet "freedom": Ars interviews Senator Al Franken". Interview with Nate Anderson, arstechnica.com. March 1, 2011.

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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.

  Al Franken

  Two, Minnesota, Proud

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• 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.

  Al Franken

  Team, Years, Wings

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

  Al Franken

  Country, Believe, Allies

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