In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
AL FRANKENI get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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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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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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