Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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 know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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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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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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