I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
AL FRANKENAll concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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For 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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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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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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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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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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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