I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
AL FRANKENTerrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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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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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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