The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
AL FRANKENYou might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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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.
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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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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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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