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

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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. by Al Franken

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

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We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.

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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like m... by Al Franken

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

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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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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

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It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.

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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

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Whining is anger through a small opening. by Al Franken

Whining is anger through a small opening.

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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held u... by Al Franken

Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. by Al Franken

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other. by Al Franken

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

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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.

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We need an investigation, because we don't know what Donald Trump owes Russia. We don't know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.

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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are... by Al Franken

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton. And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.

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