Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
AL FRANKENWe owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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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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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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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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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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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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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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