My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENThere’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I anticipate that Apple’s fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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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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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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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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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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