Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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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 going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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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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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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My dad was a terrible businessman.
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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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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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 felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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