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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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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I don’t know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can’t see it.
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Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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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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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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When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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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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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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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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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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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.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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