They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
AL FRANKENIf 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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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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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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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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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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