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My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. 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. (Al Franken)
If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years. View quote
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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. View quote
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms. View quote
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't been addressed and I'd like to stand with them. Also, I'd like to get their views on immigration. View quote
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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. Medicare was established to secure that promise. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other. View quote
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Most 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. View quote
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor. View quote
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. (Al Franken)
When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from. View quote
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. View quote
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him. View quote
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At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out. View quote
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone. View quote
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point. View quote
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Al Franken)
I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals. View quote
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens. View quote
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. View quote
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay. But adult love means you're not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be. View quote
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