During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
AL FRANKENThe 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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One thing I’ve noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.
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That’s bad news for everyone else – and for our democracy itself.
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There’s an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we’re morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that’s a bit dangerous.
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If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.
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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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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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I think if you’re going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit.
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.
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Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.
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What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.
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There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.
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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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I don’t think I’m an angry person. I think I’m a person who’s angry. I’m angry at the Bush administration;
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