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.
AL FRANKENWhy don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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Gary Bauer is a very good – he’s a good friend of mine.
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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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I want a president who can handle a cream soda.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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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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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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