I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
AL FRANKENYou 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.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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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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Yeah, 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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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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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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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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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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