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.
AL FRANKENWell, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government.
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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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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 need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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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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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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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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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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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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