My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Call-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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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