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.
AL FRANKENWhen people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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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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