The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman.
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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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The Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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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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Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.
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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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They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.
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If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire – and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
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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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We need an investigation, because we don’t know what Donald Trump owes Russia.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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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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I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.
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