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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.

Al Franken

I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I think there are all kinds of different hells. It’s not a place you go to after you die.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.

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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.

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