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AL FRANKENAnd I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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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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All 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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Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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Minnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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