It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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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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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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 Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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It’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 don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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