“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordApril 12, 2011
It is not a foreign aid program and people make that mistake, that somehow the East-West Center is an arm of our foreign aid.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii
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Editor's note · Context

Hirono clarifies that the East-West Center is not part of foreign aid.

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