Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
AL FRANKENWe basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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It was hard for him to project who he is, the person people know in private.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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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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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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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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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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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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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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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest.
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