I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
AL FRANKENWe know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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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 hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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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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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 think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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 think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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