The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the mo….

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, ….

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years..

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam..

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher per….

National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate….

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 ….

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time….

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 layi….

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding wh….

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 mean….

I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit..

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not ….

When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about….

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

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..

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

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it..

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

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good peo….

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