Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
AL FRANKENAt ‘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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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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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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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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