Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
AL FRANKENThey’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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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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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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