It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
AL FRANKENRussia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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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 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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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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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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