I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
AL FRANKENWe basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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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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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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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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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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I’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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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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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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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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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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