My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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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.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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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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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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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 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.
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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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