And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
AL FRANKENThe 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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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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 when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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