They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
AL FRANKENPart of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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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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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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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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It’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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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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