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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.

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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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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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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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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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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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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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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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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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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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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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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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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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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.

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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.

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