Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
AL FRANKENIt’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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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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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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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