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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.

Al Franken

And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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Him Hit Run Say Sue Teacher When
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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Campaign Career Certain Done People Political Really Satirist Senate Territory Thinking Unchanged
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Dad Graduate High Salesman School Two
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.
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Adult Child Children Country Like Love Mean Mommy Somebody
The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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Country Democrat Go Minnesota Second Senator State Way
When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Government Growing People Privacy Protect Talk Up
Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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Actually Bad Good Grown Help Love One Understanding Up
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.
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Agenda Also Bias Media Party Right Wing
Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Busines Deal Dispose Experience Interest Leader Made More Political Positive Western Work
I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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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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