My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
AL FRANKENMinnesota 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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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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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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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