The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
AL FRANKENThe important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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Comedy 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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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 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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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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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 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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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