My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
AL FRANKENThe news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, ‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.’
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The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its ‘Don’t be evil’ campaign pledge.
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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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My 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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There’s no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity.
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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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I want to reclaim ‘liberal.’ I’m a liberal, and I think most Americans are liberals.
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Let’s not let the government sell us out. Let’s fight for net neutrality.
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It’s hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it’s like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn’t go from one to the other.
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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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To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
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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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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that.
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Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.
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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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