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.
AL FRANKENI want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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