The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
AL FRANKENThey’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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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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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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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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