It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
AL FRANKENThere’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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