The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
AL FRANKENI like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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