It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
AL FRANKENMy dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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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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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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