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;
AL FRANKENMy spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.
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Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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I’ve spent my entire career being a satirist.
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I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. ‘It’s a job, Al,’ Guy told me. ‘We work at it every day.’
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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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And terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
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National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.
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I didn’t realize he meant our nation.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate.
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The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.
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I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.
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I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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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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There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.
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People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.
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And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.
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Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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If you use Facebook – as I do – Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.
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For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
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