But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
AL FRANKENIf you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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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.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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