My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENThe Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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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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I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.
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The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections – the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?
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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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He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.
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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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Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. Call-time is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my “call-time manager,” and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I’m really good at it.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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