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.
AL FRANKENThe 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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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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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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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