Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
AL FRANKENI think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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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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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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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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