When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
AL FRANKENThey’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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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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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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