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.
AL FRANKENThey’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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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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