I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
AL FRANKENCall-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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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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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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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 parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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