Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
AL FRANKENIt was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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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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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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