My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENMy 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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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you’ll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor.
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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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It’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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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.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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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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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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