I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
AL FRANKENAnd we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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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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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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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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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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