A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
AL FRANKENBut 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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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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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 ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit.
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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad.
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And if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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