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.
AL FRANKENIf you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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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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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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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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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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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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