Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
AL FRANKENYou have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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