Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
AL FRANKENTeen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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 am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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