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The 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.

Al Franken

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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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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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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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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