The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
AL FRANKENI don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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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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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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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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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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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