The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
AL FRANKENMost of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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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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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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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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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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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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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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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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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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