My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENIf you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.
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I’m sure I’ve devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, ‘Teacher, sue him.’
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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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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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There is – I mean – I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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It’s really building Air America that I’m focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
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