You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
AL FRANKENthat is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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My 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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I’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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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 don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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