My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENThe point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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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 do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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