My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENBut when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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