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 FRANKENI’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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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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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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If 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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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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