I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKENAnd if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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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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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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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 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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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At ‘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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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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