When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
AL FRANKENI’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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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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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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