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 FRANKENComedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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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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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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