You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
AL FRANKENLiberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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