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 FRANKENThe 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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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 nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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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.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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