We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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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 you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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They’ve had local rightwing guys who’ve become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that’s how it goes. We haven’t had that. It isn’t like we have a farm team.
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All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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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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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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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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