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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

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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 am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

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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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Gary Bauer is a very good - he's a good friend of mine.

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I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

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When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

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I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

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Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

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I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time - even when they're wrong.

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I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I've got a problem, I should take their advice. And 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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

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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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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

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