And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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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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If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty.
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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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Service dogs raise their masters’ sense of well-being.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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Oh, no, you’re kidding.’ I go, ‘No, I’m really honest.’
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A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.
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The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone – in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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