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 FRANKENCall-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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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 personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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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 parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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