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.
AL FRANKENThe 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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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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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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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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