I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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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Minnesota has a proud tradition of having two Senators on the Ag committee – a tradition I’d like very much to continue.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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