Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
AL FRANKENIt’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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 mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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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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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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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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