When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
AL FRANKENThis is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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