The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
AL FRANKENMy dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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