My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
AL FRANKENI couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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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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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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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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