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.
AL FRANKENProgressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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 think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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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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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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