The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
AL FRANKENThe 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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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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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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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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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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’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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