He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
AL FRANKENIt’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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