I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
AL FRANKENI think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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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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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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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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