He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
AL FRANKENI 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 Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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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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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.
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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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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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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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