I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
AL FRANKENFor 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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My mom sold real estate and did it part time.
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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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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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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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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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