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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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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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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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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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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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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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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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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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