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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Feet Foot Gate Guy Ourselves Right Shot Year
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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Amendment Apply Corporation Fourth
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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Dad End Graduate Mom Print Real Salesman School
But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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Big Country Domestic Get Information Lack Problem Program Surveillance Transparency
Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Build Conservative Conserve Fought Progressive Want Way
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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Arm Axis Central Country Exil Fund Mind Terrible Terrorist
We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Country Investigate Need Owe President
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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Among Christian Hypocrisy Point Religious Right Think Tremendous
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
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Card Collect Consent Data Default Personal Think
Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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Begining Internet Net Neutrality Place Since
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Assent Democracy Hope Laughter Realize
For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Appropriate Downright Funny Joke Offensive Some Thirty-five Understand Writer Wrote Year Years
You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
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Adult Child Children Country Like Love Mean Mommy Somebody
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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Break Country Dog Eye Isolation People Service
Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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Apple Iphon Many Password Pin Protect Smartphone
I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Career Entire Satirist Spent

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