The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
AL FRANKENWhen you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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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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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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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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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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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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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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