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 FRANKENMy dad was a terrible businessman.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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