I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
AL FRANKENApple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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 think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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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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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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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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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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