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.
AL FRANKENI want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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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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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.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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 had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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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 don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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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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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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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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.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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