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

Al Franken

When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Become Country Either Feel Happen Like More Place Thing Two
I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Arm Country Create Deficit Fact Go Huge Movie People Reagan Think
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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Comedian Deal Perform Pressure Stress Under
But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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Anyone Challenge Couple Deny Gay Joy Married Think Understand
Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Build Conservative Conserve Fought Progressive Want Way
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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Arm Axis Central Country Exil Fund Mind Terrible Terrorist
There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Build Farm Guy Like Local National Rightwing Slowly Team
Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Accurate Financial Job Objective Only Project Rating
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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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.
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