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,
AL FRANKENI think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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