We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
AL FRANKENIn 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’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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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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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.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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Demagoguery 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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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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