I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
AL FRANKENBob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
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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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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Call-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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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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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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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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