Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.
AL FRANKENLiberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they’ve had minor leagues.
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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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Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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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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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.
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that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it’s wrong. It’s just wrong.
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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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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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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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They had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
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I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.
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The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
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