When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
AL FRANKENI think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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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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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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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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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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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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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