I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
AL FRANKENThere is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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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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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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