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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

They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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Care College Country Decline Health Home Kid Pay Scare Send Serve Try Value Worry
Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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Go Honest Kidding No Oh Really
When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Ago Felt Field Fundraiser Kill Learn Saw Schmuck Something Tell Well
To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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Ask Bias Conservative Liberal Like Mainstream Much Oil Think Use
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.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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Believe Collect Go Information People Right Store
I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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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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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.

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