Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
AL FRANKENIt’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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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