The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
AL FRANKENI think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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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 feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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