After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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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.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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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.
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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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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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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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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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