Larry Jacobs Quotations

Minnesota has a very efficient health care system compared to other states. In a way, the inefficient states are getting rewarded.

One, seniors tend not to retire in Minnesota. And therefore, a lot of the Social Security money is not coming back to Minnesota, and particularly the Medicare and Medicaid kind of money you would see flowing to New York and in particularly, Florida.

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

If they can get into a debate with the major party candidates, then they've got an opportunity.

If the House is able to pass the stadium bill, it will probably become law.

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

I think this story is going to die from lack of oxygen.

We're losing a very powerful and influential voice in Washington. It's going to hurt.

St. Paul is still a Democratic town, and Chris Coleman is getting the political benefits from a lot of left-of-center voters who are out for Randy Kelly's head.

This confirms that the Minnesota race is going to be one of the most closely followed and hotly contested in the country. People are putting their money where their mouths are. Once you add party money, there will be a flood. Minnesota will be awash in campaign cash.

They're asked for a lot. They're rarely given. When they are given, they're rarely accepted. Apologies rarely put things behind politicians.

It's not like he took this for granted.

If you put yourself in the shoes of Minnesota workers who are facing layoffs, or have seen their wages stagnate, the idea of the immigrant as the scapegoat, there's a certain resonance to that.

Clearly, they're reaching out to the voters who are tired of the same old thing, who are disaffected. They cast a pretty powerful persona as truth-seekers.

He started asking questions and being who he is.

He's not going to go to the mat for this.

The fundamental reality is that she's more liberal than the district.

The challenge now for Chris Coleman is to hold his DFL base and bring in the Green Party without diminishing his ability to appeal to the center.