When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
AL FRANKENThe 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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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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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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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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The Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which might be the most corrupt piece of legislation in history, was a huge giveaway of taxpayer funds to the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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