My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
AL FRANKENIt’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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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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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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