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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.

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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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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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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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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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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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