The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
AL FRANKENI 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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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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 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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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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