I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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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.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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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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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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