We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
AL FRANKENDuring 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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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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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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Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
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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 couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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 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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My 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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
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I know that it’s probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician.
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But adult love means you’re not in denial, and you want the loved one to be the best they can be.
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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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Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.
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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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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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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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