There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
AL FRANKENThe civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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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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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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