The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
AL FRANKENAs 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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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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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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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