If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
AL FRANKENIf you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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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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We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.
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They’re trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they’re worried about declining home values, they’re scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.
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I just can’t sit still and meditate; that doesn’t kind of work for me. I don’t even know exactly what it means.
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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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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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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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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement – and our record of having the nation’s highest voter participation.
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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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