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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.

Al Franken

The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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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Account Electorate Government Inform Law Must National Preserve Protect Security Trust
They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Cover Do Easy Make Money Rate Stories
But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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Big Country Domestic Get Information Lack Problem Program Surveillance Transparency
The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Bill Company Corrupt Drug Giveaway History Huge Legislation Medicare might Most Part Pay Piece Prescription Tax
We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Country Investigate Need Owe President
When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Become Country Either Feel Happen Like More Place Thing Two
And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Indiscriminate Make Murder Point Political Terror
It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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After Die Different Go Hell Kind Place Think
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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Career College Country Deferment Enjoy Military Student
I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Civil Fight Liberal Like Right Tradition
There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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Afraid Ballot Check Circle Mis-fill Our People Subset Tend Voter Wrong
The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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College Concern Family Future Hold Home Kid Really
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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Country Favorable Four Higher Most Point Politician Unpopular

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