I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
AL FRANKENThe way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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