I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
AL FRANKENMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Some of George W. Bush’s friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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