My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
AL FRANKENLooking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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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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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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