There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
AL FRANKENMy mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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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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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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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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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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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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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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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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