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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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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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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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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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We know that the Russian’s interfered in our election and they did it to benefit President Trump. The intelligence agencies confirmed that.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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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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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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It’s not preppies, cause I’m a preppie myself. I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding. Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia.
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I also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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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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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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I believe people have a right to know what’s going on with their information and how it’s collected, how it’s stored and who gets it.
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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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