But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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’m part of the mushball middle. I consider ‘confused’ the majority position because, thankfully.
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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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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.
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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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Google might be doping the horses.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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