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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.

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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

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I want to reclaim 'liberal.' I'm a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.

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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.

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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

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It's not preppies, cause I'm a preppie myself. I just don't like homosexuals. If you ask me, they're all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.

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Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

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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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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.

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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

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I'm for Israel's right to exist.

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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

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There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, 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’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

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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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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.

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