Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
AL FRANKENHarvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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I think Hell exists on Earth. It’s a psychological state, or it can be a physical state.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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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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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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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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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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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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