For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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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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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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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