It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
AL FRANKENDemagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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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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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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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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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.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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