If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
AL FRANKENPart of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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