Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose.
AL FRANKENI’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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At ‘SNL,’ I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in ’95, I could let my own beliefs out.
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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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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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My dad didn’t graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year.
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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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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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I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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Whining is anger through a small opening.
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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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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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