As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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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.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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