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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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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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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That he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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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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My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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If 98 out of 100 doctors tell me I’ve got a problem, I should take their advice.
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No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.
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I’m for Israel’s right to exist.
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Medicare was established to secure that promise.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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