We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
AL FRANKENThe Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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.
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I mean, there is a part of the media that’s not the mainstream media. That’s Fox, that is ‘The Wall Street Journal’ editorial page.
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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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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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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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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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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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I do personal attacks only on people who specialize in personal attacks.
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