Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
AL FRANKENI’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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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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We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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 I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist.
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Well, I think that there’s a value to comedy in and of itself.
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My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal.
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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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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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Good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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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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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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