When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
AL FRANKENMinnesota 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 Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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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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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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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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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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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