I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
AL FRANKENAnd if those two other doctors get paid by Big Snack Food, like certain climate deniers get paid by Big Coal, I shouldn’t take their advice.
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I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.
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And the problem with the mainstream media is that it has these other biases that are much more important.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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When you live in New York, one of two things happen – you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.
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Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn’t been a satirist or a political satirist who’s done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.
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Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.
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Bill Clinton is the greatest president of the 20th century because I played touch football with him.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you’re sure of what you’re doing and you’re working with allies.
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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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The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
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He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.
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