I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
AL FRANKENMy 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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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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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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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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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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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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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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