When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
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After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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