The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
AL FRANKENProgressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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