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.
AL FRANKENYeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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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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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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