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.
AL FRANKENThe government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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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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I might think they use a little bit too much oil; some people might think it’s a little dry. But the problem with al Qaeda is they want to kill us.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Sometimes if I tell people, ‘I’m afraid that I’m really a fraud,’ or ‘I have a lot of self-doubt,’ they go.
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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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