After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
AL FRANKENAntitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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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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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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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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