For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
AL FRANKENNet neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,
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Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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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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