When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
AL FRANKENMy dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
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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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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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Demagoguery 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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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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