One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
AL FRANKENMost Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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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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Google might be doping the horses.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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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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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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