A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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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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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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