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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a terrible businessman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. 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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. 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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
- Lies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for Israel's right to exist.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
- Radio
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - 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.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
- Extreme Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to Silicon Valley. And you can't impeach Google if it breaks its 'Don't be evil' campaign pledge.
- Crafted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.
- Good Schools
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
If 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.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, 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.
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020