I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
AL FRANKENWell, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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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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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans’ privacy.
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Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written “Today I will masterbate–if I want to!
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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Teen pregnancy went way down in the ’90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
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There’s going to have to be investigations, and an independent investigation, into the Trump campaign and the Trump administration’s relationship to Russia.
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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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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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Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He’s helped me out on a couple of occasions when I’ve given speeches to corporations where he’d have a good… He’d give me some good information.
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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building,
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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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