I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
AL FRANKENI 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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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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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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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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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