If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKENWe need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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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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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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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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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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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