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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’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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