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Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

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Amy Klobuchar
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 25
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Minnesota
Amy Jean Klobuchar
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If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.
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For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible.
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As the ranking member of the Rules Committee, I'm particularly concerned about ensuring our elections are safe from foreign interference.
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Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.
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What I do see is Cuban people that are just - want to see change. They are vibrant. They are trying to fix up old cars, so they can start their tourism businesses. There's hundreds of thousands of small companies that have already started under some exceptions that Raul Castro has put into place.
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If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor.
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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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Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
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I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.
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Russia's not too great about cooperating with us when there are criminals inside their borders, but all of then like to travel. And so if they travel grabbing them and locking and putting handcuffs on them to send a message that that's not a freebie.
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We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.
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I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
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I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.
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We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.
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