The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
AL FRANKENMy dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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I think Clinton fatigue was a real thing. It’s just hard to get comfortable with Gore.
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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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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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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.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O’Reilly is kind of a bully, and he’s the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground.
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The way I see it, I’m not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I’m going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.
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If we have George W. Bush as president, we’re going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.
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