There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
AL FRANKENWe lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.
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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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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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I’m a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I’ll never stop.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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If someone hacks your password, you can change it – as many times as you want.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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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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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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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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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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