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.
AL FRANKENThis is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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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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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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