My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENThe civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Google’s screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple’s does. But it’s not a complete list, and people aren’t aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
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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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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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