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.
AL FRANKENIn my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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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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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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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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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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