My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
AL FRANKENI’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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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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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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