I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKENI’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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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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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.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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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