Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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 think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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