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My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

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We know that the Russian's interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.

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

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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn't do the only job they're supposed to have, the only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.

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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

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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. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

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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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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.

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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.

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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.

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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

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Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

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I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.

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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.

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