At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
AL FRANKENI think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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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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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.
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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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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