My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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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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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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It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.
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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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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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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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’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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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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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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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 might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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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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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
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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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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 is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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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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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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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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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