When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
AL FRANKENProgressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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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.
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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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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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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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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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 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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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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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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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 didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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