The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
AL FRANKENThere is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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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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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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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.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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