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There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

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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 don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry at the Bush administration; I'm angry at the right wing media. And by that I don't mean the media is right wing. I mean, there is a part of the media that's not the mainstream media. That's Fox, that is 'The Wall Street Journal' editorial page.

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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

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

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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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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.

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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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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton. And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

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

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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.

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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.

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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.

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

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