I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
AL FRANKENBill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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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’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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