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 FRANKENI 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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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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 he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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