Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
AL FRANKENAntitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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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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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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 think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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