When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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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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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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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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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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