I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
AL FRANKENComedy 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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And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.
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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.
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I’ve had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran.
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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.
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Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.
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During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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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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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address.
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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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I don’t consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you’re writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well.
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Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.
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