But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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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 an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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