If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
AL FRANKENIf 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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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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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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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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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 want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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