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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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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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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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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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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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