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.
AL FRANKENNet neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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