I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKENDuring the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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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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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 felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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