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.
AL FRANKENDemagoguery 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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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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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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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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