I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
AL FRANKENOne thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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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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