I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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