You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
AL FRANKENIt’s the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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It’s hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it’s impossible to have that debate.
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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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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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He didn’t have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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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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