Medicare was established to secure that promise.
AL FRANKENThere’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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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 think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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