I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKENRussia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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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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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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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 think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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