He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
AL FRANKENLet’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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 didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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