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.
AL FRANKENBut 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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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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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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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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