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You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.

Al Franken

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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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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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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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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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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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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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 hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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