Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
AL FRANKENMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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