In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
AL FRANKENMost people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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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 don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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