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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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Google might be doping the horses.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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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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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
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