I think you have to play the game on every level. If you need a friendly, charismatic, good-looking guy to be the mouthpiece, then so be it. And maybe Ralph Nader should just be behind the scenes telling that guy what to say.
AARON MCGRUDERIn USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.
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You can’t accuse the creator of The Boondocks, … Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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I think revolution is always a little bit possible. I think it won’t look or sound anything like what we would expect. But I think revolution is very difficult, and I’m not optimistic for any kind of dramatic change.
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Fame is not your friend. It ain’t necessarily your enemy. It is what it is.
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Obviously, there’s a million things we’re allowed to say on late-night cable that you’re not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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I really get a little bit confused by all this “angry angry angry” talk when all I do is tell jokes and at least some people find it funny.
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It may sound weird, but I don’t really look for culture, particularly in an American city.
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on ‘Seinfeld’.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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We don’t need a two-party system. We need something else. Because at this point, the two-party system is really just a one-party system. And that one party is crumbling.
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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Fidel Castro just talked a long time, and he talked and he talked and he talked and he talked… and he talked during the meeting. I think it was about four hours. But I guess that’s part of the Castro spirit.
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I don’t want the news to be patriotic. I don’t want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don’t want any of that.
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The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they’re gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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I don’t think the American government has a lot of respect for culture.
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And I’m not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there’s a difference in the people, and I had health care.
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In USA culture is just a matter of commerce. So, you know, I don’t really look for that, and I don’t expect to find it in any city.
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I’m actually kind of angriest about the fact that everybody keeps saying how angry I am.
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It’s difficult to overcome what you’re getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.
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We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He’s really dumb.
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I’ll have no ego to injure.
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