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AL FRANKENNational security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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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 really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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