You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
AL FRANKENThey’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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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