We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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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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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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The news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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If 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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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There 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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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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’m crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
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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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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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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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