You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.
AL FRANKENThat he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.
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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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We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.
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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.
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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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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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The 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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Why don’t we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children, and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.
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This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw ‘The Killing Fields,’ and I’ve got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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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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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 important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I’ve done.
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