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 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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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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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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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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.
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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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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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