Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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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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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’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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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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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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