The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
AL FRANKENIt’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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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 think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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