The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
AL FRANKENIf 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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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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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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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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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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 civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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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