When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
AL FRANKENThe 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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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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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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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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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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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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