You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
AL FRANKENI like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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