"My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches."

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Source : "Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator". Interview with Mary Ann Akers, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

Amy Klobuchar

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“You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.”
“Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.”
“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.”

Source : "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.
“You must learn to see, what you are looking at”
“There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.”
“I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.”
“Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.”
“According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,' and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a 'sex-addict.”

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