I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENAnd the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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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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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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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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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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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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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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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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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