Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
AL FRANKENNet neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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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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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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