My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
AL FRANKENTerrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
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I couldn’t think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow’s leaders.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility.
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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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But 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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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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