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.
AL FRANKENThe 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.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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