In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
AL FRANKENWhen people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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We 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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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This 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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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 think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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Google might be doping the horses.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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