I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
AL FRANKENIt was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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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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 crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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